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Section 14 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050836
MRDS ID N000322
Record type Site
Current site name Section 14 Prospects
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4250

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.83097, 38.5502 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Grant(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
8N 28E 14 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • JUST TO THE NORTH OF THIS SITE THE ROAD HAS BEEN DOZED SHUT, CUTTING OFF ACCESS TO AN AREA OF RATHER INTENSE,OLDER MINING ACTIVITY.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermally Altered

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.83097, 38.5502
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIMONITE STAINED,VUGGY QUARTZ VEIN IN GRANODIORITE STRIKING N 20 DEGREES E.

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 PROSPECTS

Comments on development

  • HISTORY:KNOWN ; ECON.COM: PRODUCTION:NONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, MOUNT GRANT MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE VISITS SITE 6-27-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VUGGY QUARTZ VEIN
Deposit THE PROSPECT SAMPLED WAS ONE OF THREE SEPARATE WORKINGS ON A QUARTZ VEIN.

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

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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