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Boundary Prospect

Occurrence in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047550
MRDS ID M242914
Record type Site
Current site name Boundary Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.64212, 40.36655 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Emerson Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kumiva Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Smoke Creek Desert(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 021E 20 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrrhotite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 59
USGS model code 18b
Deposit model name Skarn Cu
Mark3 model number 8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Gabbro
    Rock unit name Nightingale Sequence
    Rock description Nightingale Sequence
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.64212, 40.36655
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • ONE SHORT ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1987, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON THE KUMIVA PEAK 1:100000 MAP AREA.

  • Deposit

    SATKOSKI AND BERG, 1982, FIELD INVENTORY OF MINERAL RESOURCES, PYRAMID LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION, USBM.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IRON OXIDE STAINING AND SULFIDE MINERALS OCCUR BOTH DISSEMINATED AND MASSIVE IN GABBROIC AND DIORITIC INTRUSIVES EXPOSED IN A SMALL CREEK GULLY. THE MASSIVE SULFIDE OUTCROP IS EXPOSED IN THE EAST BANK OF THE CREEK AND CONSISTS OF A MIXTURE OF PYRITE AND PYRRHOTITE. DISSEMINATED CHALCOPYRITE WITH MALACHITE STAINING OCCURS LOCALLY IN ALTERED AND METAMORPHOSED GABBRO ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CREEK UPSTREAM FROM THE MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT. LIMESTONE AND METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS HAVE BEEN INTRUDED BY GRANITIC DIKES AND GRANODIORITE, WHICH IN TURN HAVE BEEN COVERED BY TERTIARY VOLCANIC ROCKS AND PARTIALLY EXPOSED BY EROSION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1988 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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