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Oppes #9

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Copper
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  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 10047144
MRDS ID M242396
Record type Site
Current site name Oppes #9
Alternate or previous names Entire Name On Claim Notice Is Illegible

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.77259, 37.53744 (WGS84)
Elevation 2012
Relative position ABOUT 1.2 AIRMILES S 30 W FROM OASIS DIVIDE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oasis Divide(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 005S 038E 05 NE OF NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.77259, 37.53744
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 45-50 W
    Dip 50NE
    Thickness 4.57M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated, Crushed Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Windypah (Fesler) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, STOPES; 3 INCLINE SHAFTS ALONG STRIKE OF VEIN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION ON AUGUST 1982

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WIDE BRECCIATED WHITE QUARTZ VEIN COMPOSED OF ANGULAR AND SUBROUNDED WHITE QUARTZ FRAGMENTS CEMENTED IN WHITE QUARTZ MATRIX. VEIN CAN BE TRACED BY PROMINENT SILICIFIED OUTCROPS. ZONE HAS CU OX-, MNO-FEOX
Deposit CLAIM NOTICE NOT CLEAR; ONLY LAST PORTION OF NAME (OPPES) IS LEGIBLE. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1982 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

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