The Name Unknown Radioactive Occurrence is a uranium mine located in Esmeralda county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,800 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,800 Feet (1,463 Meters)
Commodity: Uranium
Lat, Long: 37.98778, -117.86278
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Name Unknown Radioactive Occurrence MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Name Unknown Radioactive Occurrence
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Secondary: Coal
Location
State: Nevada
County: Esmeralda
District: Coaldale District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: BLANKET
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Clastic Sedimentary Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: HIGH = 0.06 MR/HR
Analytical Data: BACKGROUND = 0.015 MR/HR.
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972
Comment (Development): A FEW CUTS AND PITS HAVE BEEN DUG
Comment (Deposit): A FEW SPOTS IN A TERTIARY BENTONITIC CONGLOMERATE ARE SLIGHTLY RADIOACTIVE; COAL BED IS EXPOSED AT SURFACE.
Comment (Workings): BULLDOZER CUTS AND SEVERAL SMALL PITS, SHALLOW ADIT, 2 SHAFTS.
Comment (Geology): THE CONGLOMERATE MAY BE NEAR THE BASE OF A TERTIARY CLASTIC SECTION WHICH HERE OVERLIES THE ORDOVICIAN PALMETTO FORMATION.
References
Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 81.
Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L.J., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 13 JUL 82.
Reference (Deposit): TOENGES, A.L., ETAL, 1946, USBM TECH PAPER 687, 79 P.
Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L.J., AND PAPKE, K.G., 1980, PRELIMINARY STUDY OF NEVADA COAL RESOURCES; NBMG, OPEN-FILE REPORT 80-5, 73 P.
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
