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Beeler Prospect

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Antimony, Gold, Iron
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095392
MRDS ID M035986
Record type Site
Current site name Beeler Prospect
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3537

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.16039, 38.58353 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Relative position APPROX. 9 MI NORTH OF LUNING

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
Mount Diablo 09N 35E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST. LOCATION !!

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidized Tetrahedrite To Azurite, Malachite; Yellow-White Coatings Of Sb Oxide

Analytical data

Result GRAB SAMPLE FROM STOCKPILE ASSAYED 5.12 PERCENT SB, 9.4 PERCENT CU, 0.02 OUNCE AU 12.48 OUNCES AG PER TON

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.16039, 38.58353
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Lunning Formation

Ore body information

  • General form PODS AND BLEBS
    Strike NW 40 - 50 DEGREES
    Dip 50 -60 DEGREES SW DIP
    Width 0.76M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEINS ARE HIGHLY OXIDIZED, FERRIC-IRON STAINED. THE WORKINGS ARE AT THE HEAD OF A NARROW STEEP CANYON AND THE SAMPLE WAS TAKEN FROM WHAT APPEARS TO BE A STOCKPILE OF ORES THAT WAS BEING TRANSPORTED BY FOOT SINCE THERE WERE NO ROADS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Santa Fe

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY FOUR PITS SMALL ADITS ALONG AND PROSPECTS ?

Comments on development

  • UNKNOWN ; ECON.COM: SMALL OR NONE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE, E.F., ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 61

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, SANTE FE MINING DISTRICT,MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-7-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LUNING FORMATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) 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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