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Copper Ridge Mine

Past Producer in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103616
MRDS ID M035858
Record type Site
Current site name Copper Ridge Mine
Alternate or previous names Yerington Copper Co Nbmg # 4240

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.09209, 38.97908 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position APPROX. 4 MI. EAST OF YERINGTON, NEV.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yerington NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 026E 20 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ESTIMATE LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Copper Oxides Were Present In The Top Of The System While Chalcopyrite Dominated The Lower Mineralization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.09209, 38.97908
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Width 1.83M

Comments on the geologic information

  • A 6 FOOT FISSURE VEIN IN GRANODIORITE ADJACENT TO A PORPHYRY DIKE STRIKES N 65 DEGREES E AND DIPS 55 DEGREES SE. "META-SOMATIC VEIN"

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Yerington

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION UNKNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS WERE RUN ON THE VEIN AT VARIOUS LEVELS AND A SHAFT STARTED AT THE PORTAL OF THE LOWER ADIT DRIVEN TO 400 + FEET

Comments on development

  • UNKNOWN BUT THERE HAS BEEN SOME MATERIALS REMOVED FROM THE PLACE IT WAS ORIGINALLY OWNED BY THE YERINGTON COPPER CO. IN 1912.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AUGUST 10 , 1912 , MINES OF YERINGTON DISTRICT, MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS.

  • Deposit

    RANSOME,F.L. 1910 YERINGTON COPPER DISTRICT, MINING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, YERINGTON MINING DISTRICT, LYONS COUNTY,QUADE VISIT SITE 6-26-89, NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit METASOMATIC VEIN
Deposit YERINGTON COPPER COMPANY MAINTAINED TWELVE CLAIMS ON THE PROPERTY IN 1912 . VERY POOR ROADS IN THE AREA OF THE WORKINGS WHICH ARE ATOP THE HIGHEST POINT ON THE HILL. >20,000 CU 1,500 B ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-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

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