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Unnamed Manganese Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098653
MRDS ID M234042
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Manganese Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.81178, 39.20603 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Location accuracy 250(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buffalo Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Creek Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016N 037E 33,34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • BESIDE THE ROAD BETWEEN BUFFALO CANYON ROAD AND THE WEATHER BUREAU REMOTE STATION (UNCERTAIN LOCATION) ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972); 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1969 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.81178, 39.20603
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • POORLY-SORTED GRAVEL, IMPREGNATED WITH MANGANESE OXIDES, CAPPING MIOCENE DEPOSITS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eastgate District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on development

  • MOST OF THE DEPOSIT HAS BEEN MINED, BUT THERE IS NO RECORD OF PRODUCTION OR TO WHAT USE IT WAS PUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., AND R.C. SPEED, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG. BULL 83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POORLY-SORTED GRAVEL, THOROUGHLY IM PREGNATED WITH MANGANESE OXIDES. THE GRAVEL FORMED A NEARLY HORIZONTAL CAP ON MIOCENE DEPOSITS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-81 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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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