Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
Nye | county |
Nevada | state |
United States | country |
North America | continent |
Land | continent |
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS | |
Ione | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
Ione Valley | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
Tonopah | quadrangle 1:250,000 scale |
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units) | |
Southern Big Smoky Valley | hydrologic unit |
Central Nevada Desert Basins | hydrologic accounting unit |
Central Nevada Desert Basins | hydrologic subregion |
Great Basin | hydrologic region |
Unit | State | Lithology |
---|---|---|
Mafic phaneritic intrusive rocks | NV | Cretaceous |
Alluvium, undifferentiated | NV | Holocene and Pleistocene |
Quartz Mountain Terrane - Orthoquartzite, feldspathic sandstone, and volcanic rocks | NV | Mesozoic or Paleozoic, possibly Jurassic |
Older alluvium and alluvial fan deposits | NV | Pleistocene and Pliocene |
Andesite and basalt flows | NV | Miocene and Oligocene |
Intermediate rhyolitic flows and shallow intrusive rocks | NV | lower Miocene and Oligocene |
Intermediate silicic ash flow tuff | NV | lower Miocene and Oligocene |
Walker Lake Terrane - Luning-Berlin assemblage - Carbonate and terrigenous clastic rocks | NV | Middle (?) Jurassic to Middle Triassic |
ID | Data type | Description |
---|---|---|
Western Nevada - Tioyabe | M-Dz | Western Nevada - Tioyabe 2832 line km with spacing 1.60 km over parts of NV |
Tonopah | M/R-D | Tonopah 4858 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV |
Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
---|---|---|
GB05 | Skarn Au, truncated | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB18 | Distal disseminated Ag-Au | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB09 | Porphyry Cu | Tertiary |
GB10 | Porphyry Cu | Jurassic |
GB23 | Epithermal vein, Comstock | Tertiary |
GB26 | Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite | Tertiary |
GB28 | Hot-spring Au-Ag | Tertiary |
GB30 | Sediment-hosted Au | Phanerozoic |
GB02 | Skarn Cu | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB08 | Porphyry Cu | Cretaceous |
GB15 | Polymetallic replacement + skarn Zn-Pb | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB21 | Massive sulfide, Sierran kuroko | Mesozoic |
Domain | Crust type | Region |
---|---|---|
Golconda-Roberts Mountain | Accretionary wedge | Western Cordillera |
Sample ID | Material | Source |
---|---|---|
98-TON-34 | Sediment | Stream, Dry |
98-TON-41 | Sediment | Stream, Wet |
98-TON-43 | Sediment | Stream, Wet |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
5164585 | 1977-08-15 | Dry stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns). |
5164888 | 1977-11-08 | Wet stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns). |
5164890 | Wet stream sediment sample dried at 110øC and sieved to -18 and +35 mesh (less than 1000 and greater than 500 microns). |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
1094507 | 1977-11-08 | Spring water sample filtered through a 0.45 micron membrane filter. |
Site name | Development | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Sky Claims | Producer | BA AU AG |
Catherine Mine | Unknown | AU AG |
Hugh Prospect | Prospect | CU AG |
Ione Silver Mine | Producer | AG |
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
---|---|---|
Cascade Arc | porphyry copper | U.S. part of a continental margin arc that formed during subduction of the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates beneath western North America |
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 |