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Red Butte District

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Antimony, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001015
MRDS ID M232714
Record type District
Current site name Red Butte District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.58489, 41.10568 (WGS84)
Relative position ON WEST SLOPE OF S. END OF JACKSON MOUNTAINS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red Butte(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Jackson Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower 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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Lead Secondary
Antimony Critical Secondary
Gold Tertiary

Alteration

  • (Local) OXIDATION

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.58489, 41.10568
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name RED BUTTE DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W. O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT CO. NEV; US BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 41

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, F. L., 1909, NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT CO, NEV: U.S.G.S. BULL. 414

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT CO, NEVADA; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL 59.

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1958, CRET. AND TRET. OROGENY IN JACKSON MTNS., HUMBOLDT CO, NEV; A.A.P.G. BULL., VOL. 42, NO. 10.

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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