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Unnamed Prospect

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, 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. 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050816
MRDS ID N000190
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #3670

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.40289, 38.5602 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kinkaid(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
Mount Diablo 8N 32E 15 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.40289, 38.5602
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.61M

Comments on the geologic information

  • COPPER OXIDES COAT PORTIONS OF THE MASSIVE BARITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Comments on the workings information

  • A LINE OF PROSPECT PITS AND TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UNNAMED PROSPECT, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO.; QUADE, JACK NBMG SAMPLE SITE # 3670 VISIT 5/15/89; NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POOR ROADS NORTH OF KINKAID

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1989 Quade, Jack Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-NOV-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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