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Section 24 Mines

Occurrence in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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 10092959
MRDS ID N000162
Record type Site
Current site name Section 24 Mines
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 4263

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.92264, 38.6302 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Butler Mountain(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

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 Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
9N 27E 24 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.92264, 38.6302
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 15 DEGREES E
    Dip 80 DEGREES S
    Width 1.52M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE DUMPS ARE ALMOST BARREN OF VEIN MATERIAL AND THE SHEAR SEEMS TO CONTAIN MORE CRUSHED WHITE SILICIFIED WALL ROCK THAN QUARTZ.

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

  • TWO SHAFTS AND PROSPECTS SEVERAL VERY OLD SHAFTS ALONG A SHEAR.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, MOUNT GRANT MINING DISTRICT,LYON COUNTY, QUADE VISITS SITE 6-28-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED DISTRICT MINING FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

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

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