The Air Anomaly No. 4 is a uranium mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 11,001 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 11,001 Feet (3,353 Meters)
Commodity: Uranium
Lat, Long: 38.8533, -116.87920
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Air Anomaly No. 4 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Air Anomaly No. 4
Secondary: Hard Scrabble
Commodity
Primary: Uranium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Moores Creek Area
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Location): ONE MILE SOUTH OF MOORE CREEK ROAD; 0.5 MILE NORTH OF HEAD OF RED ROCK. INCLUDED IN P.C. NOS. 1-165 CLAIM GROUP (0320231085) BY EXXON (1980), WHICH WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE PICNIC PROJECT. BILL KOHLMOOS, RENO, NV, PROSPECTOR, LOCATED HARDSCRABBLE IN 1978. 9 SAMPLES COLLECTED BY NORANDA MINING CO. IN 1978 SHOW 10 TIMES OR MORE BACKGROUND URANIUM.
References
Reference (Deposit): BULLETIN 99B, P. 22.
Reference (Deposit): OF NORTHERN NYE CO., NV: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY
Reference (Deposit): KLEINHAMPL, F. J., AND ZIONY J. I. , 1984, MINERAL RESOURCES
Reference (Deposit): U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION RME-2055.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION PRELIMINARY REPORT 3654, 1956.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY, BULLETIN 81, 1973, P. 87.
Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.
Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA
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.
