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Little Linda Prospect

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047427
MRDS ID M242728
Record type Site
Current site name Little Linda Prospect
Alternate or previous names Cowan, Nevada Almaden, Big Quick Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.09514, 40.30601 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fitting(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie 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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028N 035E 07 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 1 KM N OF AMERICAN CANYON ROAD . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Natchez Pass
    Rock description Natchez Pass

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.09514, 40.30601
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zone

Ore body information

  • Strike NW?
    Dip 20 SW?
    Length 1066.8M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1953
Discoverer Lew Hutchins And F.E. Noble

Mining district

District name Spring Valley District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 213.36M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • 700 FT OF UNDERGROUND WORKINGS DISTRIBUTED ON 4 LEVELS THROUGH A VERTICAL INTERNAL OF 150 FT. ABOUT 110 FT LOWER ON THE HILL, AN EXPLORATORY ADIT WAS DRIVEN STRAIGHT FOR 250 FT SW TO REACH BENEATH THE AREA OF UPPER WORKINGS, BUT ALTHOUGH IT PASSED THROUGH A FEW CLASTIC DIKES, IT APPARENTLY FAILED TO ENCOUNTER ANY ORE.

Comments on development

  • EIGHT CLAIMS. THE ORIGINAL LITTLE LINDA CLAIM WAS LOCATED IN 1953 AND IN LATE 1954 AND EARLY 1955. THE LITTLE LINDA 2-8 CLAIMS WERE STAKED BY T.A. COWAN AND M.G. WHITE IN 1953 A PRODUCTION OF 11 FLASKS WAS RECOVERED APPARENTLY FROM NEAR-SURFACE ORE. IN 1954-55, COWAN MINED IN OPEN CUTS AND THROUGH ADITS, CONSTRUCTED A 2-PIPE RETORT, AND REPORTED PRODUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL 6 FLASKS. ALTHOUGH HE CONTINUED WORK UNTIL 1958, NO ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION WAS RECORDED, BUT JUDGING FROM THE SIZE OF THE DUMP, IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE MINE HAS YIELDED MORE MERCURY THAN THE RECORDS INDICATE. ORE WAS HAND-SORTED AND PROCESSED IN A RETORT 100 FT S. OF THE LOWER PORTAL. NEVADA ALMADEN PROPERTY WAS DEVELOPED BY W.G ADAMSON PRIOR TO 1909.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F.L., 1909, MINING DISTRICT IN HUMBOLT COUNTY, NEVADA;USGS BULL 414.

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY POTENTIAL IN THE U.S.;USBM IC 8252.

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, 1914, THE ROCHESTER MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA;USGS BULL 580-M

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY,NEVADA;NBMG BULL 89.

  • Deposit

    VIKRE, P.G., 1978, PH.D. THESIS, GEOLOGY AND SILVER MINERALIZATION OF THE ROCHESTER MINING DISTRICT, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA;STANFORD U.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J. AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUB. DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    WALLACE ET. AL., 1969, USGS GQ-820.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BROKEN GROUND CUT BY IRREGULAR TUFF-BEARING CLASTIC DIKES AND VEINS OF CALCITE CONTAINING CRYSTALS AND COATINGS OF CINNABAR. HANGING WALL, ANDESITE. STRINGERS AND SMALL IRREGULAR AGGREGATES OF CINNABAR ARE SCATTERED IN A MATRIX OF QUARTZ AND CALCITE GANGUE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-OCT-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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