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Rose Cave

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
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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. Geologic structures
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106550
MRDS ID M031268
Record type Site
Current site name Rose Cave
Alternate or previous names Bat Cave
Related records 10159858

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.39668, 39.13161 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Bastian Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
15N 67E 25 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.39668, 39.13161
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrust Faults, N-Ne Trending Steep Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • BAT GUANO YIELDED THE PHOSPHATE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1917

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 51.82M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEEKS, F.B., 1908 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OSCEOLA MINING DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO., NEV. U.S. GEO. BULL. 340

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY, RENO, NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    USBM,1983, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA: PREPARED FOR BLM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) 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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