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Lovelock

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Nickel, Cobalt, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105494
MRDS ID W000700
Record type Site
Current site name Lovelock
Related records 10197308, 10246349

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.91318, 39.99657 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bolivia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Edwards 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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Nickel Critical Primary
Cobalt Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Annabergite Ore
Brochantite Ore
Erythrite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 17
USGS model code 8c
Deposit model name Limassol Forest Co-Ni

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.91318, 39.99657
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: IRREGULAR FRACTURES IN ALTERED GREENSTONE NEAR DIORITE INTRUSION. RATIO OF CU:CO:NI=15:1.6:1.0

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Table Mountain(Cottonwood Canyon)

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES UNKNOWN; STUDY NEEDED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.G., 1939, UNIV. OF NEVADA BULL. VOL. 33, NO. 5

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H.R., 1966, USGS BULL. 1223, P. 47-48

  • Production

    REFERENCE(2)

  • Reserve-Resource

    UNPUBLISHED COBALT REPORT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FERGUSON BELIEVED THAT THE NI-CO DEPOSITS ARE RELATED TO NEARBY GOLD AND TITANIUM DEPOSITS AND TO THE INTRUSIVE BODY OF DIORITE, AND THAT IN THE FINAL STAGE OF MINERALIZATION BY MAGMATIC SOLUTIONS, SULFIDES AND ARSENIDES OF NI, CO, AND CU WERE INTRODUCED ALONG SMALL FISSURES IN THE ALREADY ALTERED COUNTRY ROCK

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1972 Coury, Anny B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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