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Nevada Crown Claims

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098377
MRDS ID M035702
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Crown Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.24678, 38.64214 (WGS84)
Elevation 2231
Relative position APPROX. 8 MI NW OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Ferguson(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 009N 033E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.24678, 38.64214
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1940

Mining district

District name Fitting

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Joe Malatesta
    Home office Hawthorne, Nv.
    First year 1989

Comments on the workings information

  • PITS, DOZER CUTS

Comments on development

  • RECENT DOZER CUTS. ORE STOCKPILED NEAR MAJOR LOADING FACILITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG, UNPUBL. MINING DISTRICT FILES, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA CROWN CLAIMS (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VISITED AND SAMPLED BY NBMG IN MAY 1989. JACK QUADE SAMPLE #3695, RESULTS UNKNOWN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1990 Marcus, Susan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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