Piute Prospect Sec. 26

The Piute Prospect Sec. 26 is a iron mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 3,950 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Piute Prospect Sec. 26

Commodity

Primary: Iron

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Wild Horse 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
Discovery Year: 1952
Discovery Method: Geophysical Anomaly
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
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Skarn Fe

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Magnetite
Gangue: Albite
Gangue: Calcite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): MAGNETITE OCCURS AS SOLID MASSIVE REPLACEMENT AND AS IRREGULAR STRINGERS, BLEBS AND DISSEMINATED GRAINS.OVELOCK

Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT LOCATED IN 1952, SAME AS THAT FOR PIUTE PROSPECT SEC. 24. DRILL HOLE CUTS THROUGH BRECCIATED ROCK AT CENTER OF A MAGNETIC ANOMALY. SELECTIVE UNDERGROUND MINING WOULD ALLOW PRODUCTION OF 1 TON OF PELLETS FROM MINING AND TREATI ABOUT 2 TONS OF ORE. OPEN-PIT MINING WOULD PROVE UNECONOMICAL. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Comment (Development): DRILL HOLE CUTS THROUGH BRECCIATED ROCK AT THE CENTER OF A MAGNETIC ASOMALY

Comment (Workings): JUR(?)

Comment (Geology): META-SEDIMENTS AND-VOLCANICS HOSTING THE IRON DEPOSIT IS OVERLAIN BY TERTIARY VOLCANICS AND SANDY ALLUVIUM. MAGNETITE OCCURS AS SOLID MASSIVE REPLACEMENTS AND AS IRREGULAR STRINGER, BLEBS, AND DISSEMINTATEDRAINS.

Comment (Location): E 1/2 SEC. 26

References

Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 89

Reference (Deposit): MOORE, 1971, CALIFORNIA-NEVADA IRON RESOURCES AND IRON ORE MARKETS; USBM 1C 8511, P.63-165

Reference (Deposit): SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., 1964, MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY-NORTHERN NEVADA AND NORWESTERN UTAH-SUMMARY OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1955-61, U.I; SO. PACIFIC CO., SAN FRANCISCO; P.19

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.