Wabash Claims

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Arsenic
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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050806
MRDS ID N000165
Record type Site
Current site name Wabash Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3546

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.16623, 38.58992 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Luning(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
9N 34E 35 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Arsenic Critical Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Limonite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.16623, 38.58992

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form GOSSAN LIKE DEPOSIT
    Dip 60 DEGREES E

Comments on the geologic information

  • POD LIKE ORE BODY OF HIGHLY OXIDIZED IRON ORE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Santa Fe

Comments on the workings information

  • 50 *20*10 FOOT PIT OTHER PITS ARE SMALLER

Comments on development

  • UNKNOWN ; ECON.COM: SOME BUT THE AMOUNT IS UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, SANTE FE MINING DISTRICT,MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-9-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1989 Doebrich, Jeff L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1989 Shawe, D.R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.