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Hampton and Skyline Claims

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046932
MRDS ID M242161
Record type Site
Current site name Hampton and Skyline Claims
Alternate or previous names Hampton Group Sec 30 11 Claims, Skyline Sec 19 Group 4 Claims-Part of Dry Gulch Placer Usbm, Sample Location #7

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.38391, 39.05605 (WGS84)
Elevation 2743

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogum(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014N 068E 19,30 S2 (19); N2 (30) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AT HEAD OF DRY GULCH AND MARY ANN GULCH . UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF WORKINGS AND CLAIMS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result DUMP GRAB SAMPLE, 5 FT GRID, IN 1981 YIELDED 0.1% CU, NO AG, MO, PB, W,Y.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.38391, 39.05605
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 2.44M
    Length 548.64M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1896

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • 400 FT OREGON TUNNEL (CROSSCUT) WITH 125 FT OF DRIFTING; 40 FT SHAFT; 175-FT CROSSCUT TUNENL WITH 50 FT OF DRIFTING; SHALLOW SURFACE CUTS

Comments on development

  • "EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH GRADE " ORE TAKEN OUT IN 1896

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCCLURE, E.R., 1934, LETTER AND REPORT ON HAMPTON & SKYLINE MINING CLAIMS, OSCEOLA, NEV.; NBMG FILE 335, ITEM 2.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1936, NBMG BULL 27, P. 167-173

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 56-83.

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA; FOR BLM

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ STRINGERS CARRY SMALL GOLD VALUES. THER IS A LARGE VEIN OF TUNGSTEN CARRYING GOLD VALUES RUNNING N-S ACROSS THE WESTERN END OF THE HAMPTON GROUP. SEVERAL E-W VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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