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Radium Deposit

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodity Radium
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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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046992
MRDS ID M242228
Record type Site
Current site name Radium Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.38556, 35.77806 (WGS84)
Elevation 951
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position SEVERAL MILES WEST OF SUTTER SIDING., Within 5 Miles

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goodsprings(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mesquite Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ivanpah-Pahrump 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 Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 25S 59E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1:62500 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1960 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Radium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Carnotite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • CARNOTITE, ASSOCIATED WITH MANGANESE OXIDE, OCCURS AS A COATING IN FRACTURES IN SANDSTONE AND LIMESTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer J. Isachson, Formerly Of Sean, Nev.
Year of first production 1931

Mining district

District name Jean

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW SHAFTS, TRENCHES AND OPEN-CUTS.

Comments on development

  • ALTHOUGH PROSPECTING HAS BEEN CARRIED ON BY A NUMBER OF SHALLOW SHAFTS, TRENCHES AND OPEN-CUTS, THE AMOUNT OF CARNOTITE FOUND WAS TOO SMALL TO BE COMMERCIALLY IMPORTANT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERBERG, 1937, RECONNASANCE OF MINERAL DIST IN CLARK CO., NEV.; USGS INF CIRC. 6964, P. 54

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-83 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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