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Unnamed Prospect Tungsten

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008837
MRDS ID D001280
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospect Tungsten
Related records 10174141

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.36956, 37.95993 (WGS84)
Elevation 1999
Relative position 3 MILES SW OF MOUNT MONTGOMERY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Montgomery(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 032E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1962 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.36956, 37.95993
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buena Vista District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

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

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 58, P. 80.

  • Deposit

    CROWDER, D.F., ROBINSON, P.F., AND HARRIS, D.L., 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BENTON QUADRANGLE: USGS MAP GQ-1013.

  • Deposit

    5) LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: RENO, NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBL. CO., P. 140.

  • Deposit

    6) SCHILLING, J.H., 1962, HOLYBDENUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES MAP 8.

  • Deposit

    7) SCHILLING, J.H., 1962, AN INVENTORY OF MOLYBDENUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES REPT. 2. A GEN COMBINED WITH RECORD NO. M030121 BY TED G. THEODORE IN 78,02. RECORD M030121 IS DELETED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 09-JUN-1995 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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