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Dirty Shirt Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008825
MRDS ID D001262
Record type Site
Current site name Dirty Shirt Mine
Alternate or previous names Probably Same As Old Pilot Knob Group, Usbm Sample Localty #6.
Related records 10295935

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.40085, 39.06661 (WGS84)
Elevation 2591
Relative position NEAR PEAK OF PILOT KNOB RIDGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogum(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014N 067E 24 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 5 CLAIMS 2.5 MILES S OF OSCEOLA. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PARKER ESTIMATED 1480 TONS OF 2.3 UNITS WO3/TON ORE RESERVES IN ABOUT 1935.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Manganite Gangue

Analytical data

Result TUNGSTEN CONTENT OF ORE MINED WAS 1.5-2.0 % WO3 WITH RICH POCKETS UP TO 5.0 % WO3. A 1981 RANDOM GRAB SAMPLE FROM A DOZER CUT YIELDED 0.01 % W, NO AG,CU,MO,PB OR Y.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.40085, 39.06661
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO LENTICULAR
    Strike N45E
    Dip 45SW
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 12.19M

Comments on the geologic information

  • QUARTZITE STRIKING N15E, DIP 35W. METADOLERITE DIKE ON HANGING WALL OF VEIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1928
Discoverer Don Beck

Mining district

District name Osceola District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner J. B. Parker
    First year 1930
  • Type Owner
    Owner J. R. Henry(50%- Walter Spencer(50%)
    Last year 1930

Production statistics

  • Year 1943
    Period 1941-1943
    Accuracy Estimate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Wo3 Tungsten Tungsten 1wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • FROM 100 TONS ORE

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT ABOUT 96 FT DEEP WITH SHORT DRIFTS NEAR THE BOTTOM AND A SMALL STOPE, 650-FT ADIT, STOPES, 20-STAMP MILL IN 1922; DOZER CUT IN 1981.

Comments on development

  • FIRST WORKED FOR GOLD, UNSUCCESSFULLY. INACTIVE UNTIL 1927-1928, WHEN SCHEELITE WAS IDENTIFIED. PARKER OWNED AND OPERATED IT FROM 1929-1933 AND MINED AND MILLED ABOUT 5 TONS HIGH-GRADE SCHEELITE CONCENTRATE, UVADA TUNGSTEN WAS ORGANIZED TO TAKE OVER THE PROPERTY IN 1917, BUT THE LEASE LAPSED DUE TO LOW PRICE FOR TUNGSTEN. REPORTED AS ACTIVE IN 1980.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R.K., BLAKE, M.C.JR., AND SMITH, R.M., 1976, NBMG BULL 85, P. 60-62.

  • Deposit

    STAGER, H.K., NBMG BULL. IN PREPARATION ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    PARKER, M.B., 1930, THE DIRTY SHIRT GROUP OF SCHEELITE MINING CLAIMS: NBMG FILE 335, ITEM 1.

  • Deposit

    USBM,1963, UNPUBLISHED DATA, NBMG FILE 335, ITEM 13.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H.,ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV, P. 1303-1304.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 56-83.

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY FOR THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT,NEVADA; PREPARED FOR BLM.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHEELITE OCCURS IN THE QUARTZ VEIN AS LARGE ORANGE-BROWN CRYSTALS UP TO SEVERAL INCHES ACROSS. VEIN PARALLELS DIKE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

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