Counties, states, countries, continents, or oceans | |
Humboldt | county |
Nevada | state |
United States | country |
North America | continent |
Land | continent |
Map quadrangles, from USGS or Canadian NTS | |
Calavera Canyon | quadrangle 1:24,000 scale |
Denio | quadrangle 1:100,000 scale |
Vya | quadrangle 1:250,000 scale |
Watershed boundaries (USGS hydrologic units) | |
Upper Quinn | hydrologic unit |
Black Rock Desert | hydrologic accounting unit |
Black Rock Desert-Humboldt | hydrologic subregion |
Great Basin | hydrologic region |
Unit | State | Lithology |
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Felsic phaneritic intrusive rocks | NV | Cretaceous |
Alluvium, undifferentiated | NV | Holocene and Pleistocene |
Older alluvium and alluvial fan deposits | NV | Pleistocene and Pliocene |
Younger rhyolitic flows and shallow intrusive rocks | NV | Miocene |
ID | Data type | Description |
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McDermitt | M-D | McDermitt 2574 line km with spacing 0.53 km over parts of NV-OR |
Vya | M/R-D | Vya 4861 line km with spacing 4.80 km over parts of NV-OR-CA |
Tract | Deposit Type | Mineralization age |
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GB23 | Epithermal vein, Comstock | Tertiary |
GB26 | Epithermal vein, quartz-alunite | Tertiary |
GB28 | Hot-spring Au-Ag | Tertiary |
GB02 | Skarn Cu | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB09 | Porphyry Cu | Tertiary |
GB10 | Porphyry Cu | Jurassic |
GB18 | Distal disseminated Ag-Au | Mesozoic - Tertiary |
GB21 | Massive sulfide, Sierran kuroko | Mesozoic |
Domain | Crust type | Region |
---|---|---|
Shoofly-Olds Ferry | Oceanic arc | Western Cordillera |
Sample ID | Material | Source |
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D-552673 | Sediment | Stream, Wet |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
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5149843 | 1979-08-29 | Stream sediment sample from flowing stream, sieved to less than 149 microns (-100 mesh) and dried at less than or equal to 110øC. |
Sample ID | Date collected | Sample type |
---|---|---|
1090511 | 1979-08-29 | Stream water sample filtered through a 0.8 micron filter at the site. |
Sample ID | Rock type | Rock name |
---|---|---|
D213565 | igneous | rhyolite |
D213566 | igneous | rhyolite |
D213567 | igneous | rhyolite |
D226319 | igneous | rhyolite |
M137145 | igneous | felsic |
M137146 | igneous | felsic |
M145651 | igneous | rhyolite |
Site name | Development | Commodities |
---|---|---|
Moonlight Mine | Past Producer | U MN AG AS BA CU MO F |
Sample ID | Sample source | Sample notes |
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D552673 | stream/river | Stream Sediment > 100 Mesh |
Tract name | Deposit type | Geology |
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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 |
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Mine Shaft | point | Moonlight Mine |
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