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Cottonwood Canyon Area

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10048653
MRDS ID MP00264
Record type Site
Current site name Cottonwood Canyon Area

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.14568, 39.79184 (WGS84)
Elevation 1400
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position ABOUT 4 MI WEST OF DIXIE HOT SPRINGS AS ESTIMATED FOR THIS RECORD, Est Location Is Estimated About Midway Up Cottonwood Canyon. Thus, Location Is Very Inexact

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fondaway Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(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 Churchill

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION OF SAMPLING IS UNKNOWN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Rhodium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Copper Ore

Analytical data

Result 340 PPB PT, 930 PPB PD, 30 PPB RH IN ROCK SAMPLE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Humboldt Lopolith
    Rock description Humboldt Lopolith
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.14568, 39.79184
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Major Block Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form UNKNOWN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    M.L. ZIENTEK, 1993, WRITTEN COMMUN. TO J.A. PETERSON

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-93 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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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