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Foley's and Palmetto Company's Prospects

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047093
MRDS ID M242341
Record type Site
Current site name Foley's and Palmetto Company's Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.66898, 37.80994 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position ABOUT 4.3 AIRMILES N25W FROM TOWN OF SILVER PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001S 039E 32 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR MOUTH OF EAGLE CANYON. UTM IS TO THE MORE EASTERLY OF THE PROSPECTS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Reed Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.66898, 37.80994
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Altered Diorite Dike

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1906

Mining district

District name Silver Peak District (1865)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 PROSPECTS 200-300 YDS APART ON EXTENSION OF THE BLACK WARRIOR ZONE. VEINS ARE OF QUARTZ AND JASPEROID CUTTING ACROSS DOLOMITE BUT ASSOCIATED WITH ALTERED DIORITE (GREENSTONE) DIKES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1981 La Pointe, D.D. (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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.