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Susan Claim Group

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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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 10047127
MRDS ID M242377
Record type Site
Current site name Susan Claim Group
Alternate or previous names Susan Claims, Nos. 1-6

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.2998, 37.26578 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position To Probable Vicinity Of Claims Within 700 M Or So

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)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 008S 042E NW,TOWNSHIP. 06 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Biotite Gangue
Lepidolite Gangue
Orthoclase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result BACKGROUND RADIOACTIVITY=0.04 MR/HR
Result HIGH=0.10 MR/HR. 1.5 AND 2.0-FT CHIP SAMPLES CONTAINED 0.02 AND 0.09% CU308

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.2998, 37.26578
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS AND STRINGERS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact Of Pegmatite Dike With Granitic Rocks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tokop (Gold Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, NBMG BULL. 81, P. 53.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ABNORMAL RADIOACTIVITY OCCURS IN ISOLATED PODS AND STRINGERS ALONG THE CONTACTS OF A QUARTZ-RICH PEGMATITE DIKE, RADIOACTIVE PODS OCCUR IN THE COUNTRY ROCK ALONG BOTH SIDES OF THE DIKE, BUT THE DIKE ITSELF IS BARREN

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-82 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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