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Huntington-Whitman Group

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10106551
MRDS ID M232596
Record type Site
Current site name Huntington-Whitman Group
Alternate or previous names Amos Or Slumbering Hills District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.98515, 41.216 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 30 MILES NW OF WINNEMUCCA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver State Draw(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Osgood Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 040N 035E 35,36 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ADJOINS JUMBO MINE TO S AND W ; +/- 1000 M.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.98515, 41.216
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Reg.Struct: Mod. Regional Deformation Of Sediments. Fold Axes Trend N-S

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciation

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.COM: VERY SIMILAR TO THE JUMBO MINE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Awakening District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • DISTRICT PRODUCED 280,000 TONS ORE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALKINS, F. C., 1938, GOLD DEPOSITS OF SLUMBERING HILLS: U. OF NEV. BULL., VOL 32, NO.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-80 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-94 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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