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Santa Fe-Luning District

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Iron, Lead
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10105795
MRDS ID W016420
Record type Site
Current site name Santa Fe-Luning District
Alternate or previous names Vlincaid, Luning
Related records 10149634

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.10095, 38.53325 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position APPROX. 8 MI. NE OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sunrise Flat(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

Comments on the location information

  • GEOLOGICALLY, SINGLE DISTRICT COVERING AN AREA OF ABOUT 40 SQ. MI., GEOGRAPHICALLY FOUR SEPARATE AREAS: SUNRISE FLAT, NEW YORK CANYON, TODD AND GIROUX AREAS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Iron Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cerargyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Limestone Gangue
Pyrite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization, Limonitization, Propyllitization

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Luning Formation;Dunlap Form
    Rock description Luning Formation;Dunlap Form
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.10095, 38.53325
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Complex System Of Normal Faults Extensive Folding

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS, IRREGULAR REPLACEMENT BODIES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Ore Found At Or Adjacent To Intrusive Contact Between Granodiorite, Diorite And Lmst. Usually Conc. In Clay-Altered Lmst. Beds Adjacent To Garnetite; Localized By Favorable Beds

Comments on the geologic information

  • ALONG WEST SIDE OF SUNRISE FLAT, TRIASSIC LUNING FORMATION (LMST.) IS THRUST OVER JURASSIC DUNLAP FORMATION (GREENSTONES) AND THESE RX ARE INTRUDED BY CRET. ACIDIC RXS. MOST OF THE BASIN IS COVERED BY ALLUVIUM BUT OPPOSITE NEW YORK CANYON, THERE IS A SMALL AREA OF TERTIARY VOLC. COVER

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • REFER TO SPECIFIC MINE SITE RECORD INFO. FOR INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 304.8M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    1922 RECON CLARK, C. W., UNIV. OF CA PUB. VOL. 14 NO. 1

  • Deposit

    1928 RECON FOSHAG, ORE DEPOSITS OF HAWTHORNE QUAD. (UNPUB.)

  • Deposit

    1915 RECON HILL, J. M., BULL. 594

  • Deposit

    1961 RECON ROSS, D. L., BULL. 58

  • Production

    COUCH, CARPENTER, 1943 , NEV. METAL AND MINERAL PROD., UNIV. OF NEV. BULL., VOL. 37 , NO. 4

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONTACT METASOMATIC
Deposit SOME EVIDENCE OF GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING IN THE AREA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1976 Weeks, Robert U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1990 Stewart, J. H.; Marcus, Sue U.S. Geological Survey

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