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Section 11 Prospects

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. 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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050832
MRDS ID N000317
Record type Site
Current site name Section 11 Prospects
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4201

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.72124, 38.4852 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lucky Boy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
7N 29E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • COREY CANYON IS CLOSED TO ENTRY .

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Deep Gruss

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.72124, 38.4852
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip N 80 DEGREES E

Comments on the geologic information

  • LOCALLY THE GRANITE IS DEEPLY WEATHERED, FORMING AREAS OF DEEP GRUSS. VEIN QUARTZ SEEN ON DUMP IS IRON-STAINED AND VUGGY.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mount Grant

Comments on the workings information

  • A LINE OF SHALLOW CAVED ADITS

Comments on development

  • MINES IN THIS AREA DATE TO THE 1870'S ; ECON.COM: PRODUCTION: UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, MOUNT GRANT MINING DISTRICT,MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE VISITS SITE 6-14-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED DISTRICT MINING FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COREY CANYON IS THE WATER SHED FROM WHICH HAWTHORNE DERIVES ITS DRINKING WATER, AND THEY WANT TO PROTECT THEIR WELLS FROM CONTAMINATION. ENTRANCE TO THE CANYON CAN BE ARRANGED THROUGH THE HAWTHORNE UTILITY AT 395 E. STREET IN HAWTHORNE BETWEEN 8:00 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M.

Reporter information

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

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