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Alpha Claims

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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047202
MRDS ID M242463
Record type Site
Current site name Alpha Claims
Alternate or previous names Copper King, Alpha Nos 1-6 Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.50064, 37.96716 (WGS84)
Elevation 1996
Relative position ABOUT 1 MILE S. OF BARREL SPRINGS; 4 MILES S. OF ALPINE MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Weepah(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(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 002N 040E 0508 PROJECTED FROM SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS OF 4 SAMPLES: 0.32-2.4 OZ/T AG, TRACE AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.50064, 37.96716
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N30W
    Dip 50E
    Width 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lone Mountain District; Weepah, West Divide District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lee Hand And Associates, Tonopah
    First year 1920

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHALLOW SHAFTS, 20 FT DEEP, ABOUT 25 FT APART.

Comments on development

  • MAY BE SAME AS COPPER KING PROPERTY, DESCRIBED BY SPURR AS LYING EAST OF THE LONE MOUNTAIN SYNDICATE GROUND

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CARPER,A.F., 1920, UNPUB. REPORT ON THE ALPHA PROPERTY, LONE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT ESMERALDA CO., NV., NBMG, DISTRICT FILE 96, ITEM1

  • Deposit

    SPURR, J.E., 1906, USGS P.P. 55.

  • Deposit

    NBMG OFR 83-08,83-11,83-12,1983

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1985 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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