Mine detail: Lucky Day Group Uranium Prospect

Previously called 'Lucky Day No. 2 Claim'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.9935, -119.28378

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium
Tertiary:	Iron
Ore:	Uranophane
Gangue:	Calcite, Hematite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	None
Development status:	Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:	Auld Lang Syne;Hartford Hill Rhyolite;Chloropagus Formation
Host type:	Sandstone
Structure:	Mobile Belt, Deposit Is Along West Side Of Nightingale Block-Faulted Range; Caldera Margin
Tectonic:	Central Part Of Eugeosynclinal Part Of Nevada Basin And Range.
Alteration processes:	Argillization Of Rhyolite With Hematite; Silicification Of Rhyolite Away From Fault

References

MRDS	M231147
DEP	10043857
Reference	{Deposit:: SMOUSE, DE FORREST, 1978, FIELD EXAMINATION OF URANIUM OCCURRENCE.}{Deposit:: STAFF, ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION PRELIMINARY RECONNAISANCE: OPEN FILE REPORT 3739.}{Deposit:: GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 81, P. 98.}{Deposit:: BONHAM, H.F., JR., 1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WASHOE AND STOREY COUNTIES, NEVADA, WITH A SECTION ON INDUSTRIAL ROCK AND MINERAL DEPOSITS BY K.L. PAPKE: NBMG BULL. 70., P. 72, PL. I, II.}
Reporter	Tingley, J.V., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.), Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.)