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New Year Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum, Manganese
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037025
MRDS ID M030041
Record type Site
Current site name New Year Group
Alternate or previous names Ophir Group, Warfield Claim, Tungsten View Claim, Loring Claim, Bobby Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.2676, 38.94992 (WGS84)
Elevation 2256
Relative position IN OPHIR CREEK; 1 MILE E OF OPHIR SITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

South Toiyabe Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe 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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 041E;042E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Analytical data

Result ESTIMATED GRADE OF ORE TO BE 0.1-5.0% WO3. A SELECTED GRAB SAMPLE IN 1980 OF ORE CONTAINED (IN PPM): 200 W, 1000 MO, 100 BE, 200 V, 300 PB, 500 ZN, 100 CU, GT 5000 MN, 200 BA

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist > Calc-Silicate Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.2676, 38.94992
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED, SHOOT, POD
    Length 76.2M
    Width 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • No Information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ASSOCIATED WITH VEINS AND PODS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Twin River District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Stanley Chiatovich, Barney O'Malia
    Home office Hawthorne, Nv.
    First year 1952
  • Type Owner
    Owner Bill Thomas, Phil And Louis Meyers.

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED 3 TONS PER DAY IN 1952.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SCHILLING, JH, 1964, TUNGSTEN IN MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 65.

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.

  • Production

    SCHILLING, 1964, P. 159

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1978 Theodore, Ted G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

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