Jabonria Claims

Prospect in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047046
MRDS ID M242288
Record type Site
Current site name Jabonria Claims
Alternate or previous names Ecology Freaks Claims, NBMG Sample Sites 1292, 1293, 1295, 1296.
Related records 10149430

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.37341, 37.35217 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 41E 04 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO SAMPLE SITE 1292. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.37341, 37.35217

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Prominent E-W Trending N-Dipping Bedding Plane Faults Also Prominent E-W Vertical Faulting

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding Plane Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDDING PLANE FAULTS BETWEEN LIMESTONE UNITS AND SILICEOUS UNITS. SILICEOUS SEDIMENTS ARE FURTHER SILICIFIED NEAR VEINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • INNUMERABLE SHAFTS, ADITS, TRENCHES, SURFACE CUTS.

Comments on development

  • IN 1983, GROUND WAS BEING PREPARED FOR A LEACHING OPERATION ON THE ECOLOGY FREAKS CLAIMS WITH HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATING AND MEN PERMANENTLY IN TRAILERS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH/BENTZ, 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 9 MAY 83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS CUT ALL SEDIMENTS IN RANDOM ORIENTATIONS, CALCITE STRINGERS ARE NOTED ALONG BEDDING CONTACTS. BOTH THE QUARTZ AND THE CALCITE HAVE BEEN BRECCIATED/FRACTURED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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