1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Redlite Claims

Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10100748
MRDS ID M241684
Record type Site
Current site name Redlite Claims
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #1724
Related records 10173972

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.05082, 37.91025 (WGS84)
Elevation 2164
Relative position 1200 FT WEST OF POPE MINE IN BOTTOM OF GULLY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deer Lodge Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 071E 29 SW OF SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEW ACCESS ROAD TO WORKINGS IS PROVIDED BY BULLDOZED ROAD THROUGH CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Siderite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillization, Silicification, Kaolinization

Analytical data

Result A SAMPLE OF SECOND VEIN AT BACK OF ADIT ASSAYED 0.02 OZ/T AU
Result NO AG. SAMPLE 7724 CONTAINS 500 PPMN, 2 PPM AG, 200 PPM BA, 20PPM PB, 200PPMSR.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.05082, 37.91025
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fracturing

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Valley (Gold Springs) District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 155.45M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE AS SHOWN ON MAP (SEVERAL ADITS AND A SHAFT) PLUS VERY RECENT EXCAVATIONS IN VICINITY OF WORKINGS. ADIT ON SE SIDE OF GULLY HAS 300 FT OF WORKINGS. ADIT ON NW SIDE OF GULLY HAS 210 FT OF WORKINGS

Comments on development

  • IN 1983, AREA HAD BEEN RECENTLY FLAGGED AND STAKED. BULLDOZER WORK AT MINESITE PROBABLY DONE SPRING OR SUMMER, 1983.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BENTZ, J. AND SMITH, P., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, 9/17/83

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L.I., 1976, UTAH GEOLOGY, VOL. 3, NO. 1, P. 23, 40-45,PL. 1.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS 1-3 IN WIDE, VUGGY, OPEN-CENTERED, BANDED, WITH QUARTZ AFTER CALCITE TEXTURES; LIMONITIC BOXWORKS, OXIDIZED PYRITE, MN OXIDE STAINING. S70E FRACTURE ZONE IN ANDESITE; FRACTUR ZONE IS FOLLOWED BY AN ADIT WHICH CROSSES SEVERAL SE-DIPPING FAULTS AND ZONES OF ARGILLIC ALTERATION. 2 FAULT-BOUNDED, CALCITE-limonite VEINS WERE ENCOUNTERED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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