Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
White Pine | county |
Nevada | state |
United States | country |
North America | continent |
Land | continent |
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS | |
Giroux Wash | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
Mount Hamilton | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
Ely | quadrangle 1:250,000 scale |
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units) | |
Spring-Steptoe Valleys | hydrologic unit |
Central Nevada Desert Basins | hydrologic accounting unit |
Central Nevada Desert Basins | hydrologic subregion |
Great Basin | hydrologic region |
Unit | State | Lithology |
---|---|---|
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Limestone and minor dolomite | NV | Upper and Middle Devonian |
Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks | NV | Cretaceous |
Foreland Basin Assemblage - Siltstone, limestone, shale, and sandstone | NV | Lower Mississippian and Upper Devonian |
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Cherty limestone, dolomite, shale, and sandstone | NV | Middle to Lower Permian |
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Limestone, dolomite, siltstone, sandstone, and shale | NV | Lower Permian and Pennsylvanian |
Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Siltstone, sandstone, limestone, and dolomite | NV | Lower Permian, Leonardian and Wolfcampian |
Alluvium, undifferentiated | NV | Holocene and Pleistocene |
Older rhyolitic flows and shallow intrusive rocks | NV | lower Oligocene to middle Eocene |
ID | Data type | Description |
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New Ely | M-Dz | New Ely 3149 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV |
Ely '60 | M-Dz | Ely '60 844 line km with spacing 3.20 km over parts of NV |
Ely | M/R-D | Ely 4947 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV-UT |
Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
---|---|---|
GB05 | Skarn Au, truncated | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB18 | Distal disseminated Ag-Au | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB02 | Skarn Cu | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB15 | Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB30 | Sediment-hosted Au | Phanerozoic |
GB08 | Porphyry Cu | Cretaceous |
GB09 | Porphyry Cu | Tertiary |
GB10 | Porphyry Cu | Jurassic |
Domain | Crust type | Region |
---|---|---|
Mojave | Lateral-extensional orogen | Central and Southwest |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Commodity |
---|---|---|
Ely (Robinson, Ruth) | Hydrothermal | copper, gold |
Robinson | Hydrothermal | copper, silver, gold |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
5140279 | 1980-06-22 | Other sediment or rock sample. |
5140714 | 1980-05-08 | Stream sediment sample from dry stream, sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh), and dried (if necessary) at less than or equal to 110øC. |
Sample ID | Rock type | Rock name |
---|---|---|
D354726 | sedimentary | |
D354727 | sedimentary | |
D514496 | metamorphic | skarn |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Location |
---|---|---|
Ely | 17 | Nevada, United States |
Site name | Development | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Robinson Mine | Producer | AU CU MO AG |
Liberty Pit | Producer | CU MO AG AU ZN PB PGE_PT PGE_PD |
Morris-Brooks Shaft | Past Producer | CU |
Emma Mine Pit | Past Producer | AG CU |
Robinson Sag Mill & Concentrator | Plant | CU AU AG |
Taylor Mine, Ely Dist | Occurrence | W CU |
Ely Consolidated Group | Past Producer | CU AU AG |
Blair and Kearsarge Claim | Past Producer | CU AL |
Bunker-Morris Mine | Past Producer | CU |
Badger Claim | Past Producer | PB CU AU AG ZN |
Nevada Clay Sample 9 | Prospect | CLY |
Robinson District | Producer | PB AG ZN CU AU MO PGE_PT PGE_PD RE |
Ely District (Robinson) | Producer | CU AU PGE_PT PGE_PD NI |
Ely Central Group | Past Producer | CU AU AG |
Carbonate and Eldorado Claims | Unknown | AG AU PB |
Liberty | Past Producer | CU AU AG |
Columbia Mine | Past Producer | MN CU AU PB AG ZN |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Location |
---|---|---|
Ely District (Robinson) | Producer | Nevada, United States |
Robinson District | Producer | Nevada, United States |
Liberty Pit | Producer | Nevada, United States |
Sample ID | Sample source | Rock name |
---|---|---|
852 | Core or cutting | Rhyolite |
853 | Outcrop or artificial surface exposure | Monzonite |
855 | Outcrop or artificial surface exposure | Monzonite |
856 | Quarry | Monzonite |
857 | Core or cutting | Monzonite |
858 | Quarry | Monzonite |
859 | Quarry | Monzonite |
1137 | Core or cutting | Rhyolite |
1138 | Outcrop or artificial surface exposure | Monzonite |
1140 | Outcrop or artificial surface exposure | Monzonite |
1141 | Quarry | Monzonite |
1142 | Core or cutting | Monzonite |
1143 | Quarry | Monzonite |
1144 | Quarry | Monzonite |
3160 | Quarry | Quartz monzonite |
7338 | Quarry | Ore porphyry |
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
---|---|---|
Great Basin Tertiary | porphyry copper | Mid-Tertiary volcanic fields associated with postsubduction extension in the Great Basin |
Sierran Arc | porphyry copper | A composite island-continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath western North America |
Western U.S. and Sonoran Desert Jurassic Arc | porphyry copper | U.S. and Mexican parts of a composite island-continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Farallon Plate beneath western North America |
Site name | Feature type | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Emma Mine | Open Pit Mine | copper |
Liberty Pit | Open Pit Mine | copper |
Robinson Mine | Open Pit Mine | copper; gold; molybdenum; silver; lead; zinc; manganese; rhenium; palladium; platinum |
Liberty | Deposit | copper |
Emma | Deposit | copper |
Richard | Deposit | copper |
Deposit name | Deposit type | Critical minerals |
---|---|---|
Robinson/Ely | Porphyry/skarn copper | rhenium |