1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Winnemucca Lake

Past Producer in Alpine county in California, United States with commodity Molybdenum
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035050
MRDS ID M022173
Record type Site
Current site name Winnemucca Lake
Related records 10187601

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.9885, 38.66935 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alpine(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Carson Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork American(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Eldorado National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Mokelumne Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Alpine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 018E 34 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM. EST. NEAR E SIDE OF WINNEMUCCA LAKE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOLYBDENITE OCCURS AS FINE TO MEDIUM-SIZED, FLAT, METALLIC SILVER COLORED XTLS.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.9885, 38.66935
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • MOLYBDENITE DISSEMINATED IN GRANITIC ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W. B., 1977 , MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ALPINE COUNTY, CALIF.: CDMG COUNTY REPT NO. 8 , P. 33 , 47

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 14-MAR-1994 Mosier, D.L. U.S. Geological Survey CORRECTED LAT.-LONG., UTM ZONE, ASSOC. ROCK TYPE. ENTERED HOST ROCK TYPE.
Reporter 01-AUG-1979 Hayden, F. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

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