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Open Pit Mine

Past Producer in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Production statistics
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014360
MRDS ID D011098
Record type Site
Current site name Open Pit Mine
Alternate or previous names Lone Mtn

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.97592, 41.10407 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Singletree Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Double Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
037N 053E 11 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Silver Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.97592, 41.10407
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Merrimac

Production statistics

  • Year 1954
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^Est. To Be 0.9 Percent Wo3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Wo3 Tungsten Tungsten 1wt-pct

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBM BULL, STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP JAN. 1984)

  • Production

    NBM BULL, STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP JAN. 1984)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1984 Bishop, Blaskowski, Michael J. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.