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White Horse

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Copper, Antimony
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037252
MRDS ID M031213
Record type Site
Current site name White Horse
Related records 10272175

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.66003, 39.83632 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Schellbourne(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(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 23N 65E 29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • N OF SCHELLBOURNE ON E. SIDE OF MCMAUGHN CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyodacite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.66003, 39.83632
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • Strike N35W
    Dip 75NE

Comments on the geologic information

  • BRECCIATED SILICIFIED LIMESTONE WITH QUARTZ AND CALCITE VEINING. JASPEROID WITHIN BRECCIA. SMALL SPRAYS OF TETRAHEDRITE, MALACHITE, AZURITE; SCHEELITE CLOTS(?) FAULT TRENDING N 15E. MINERALIZATION VERY SLIGHT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1952
Discoverer Orresimo Duran

Mining district

District name Aurum

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 SHORT ADITS AND AN OPEN PIT-GLORY HOLE

Comments on development

  • SCHEELITE MINED IN 1954

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOSE, BLAKE, & SMITH 1976, GEOLOGY & MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE CO, NEV. NEV BUREAU OF MINES & GEO. BULL. 85

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V. AND SMITH, P., 1981, FIELD EXAMINATION NOTES; EXAMINED 10/7/81.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHEELITE OCCURS IN A CALCITE VEIN AND IN 0.13 IN VEINLETS NEAR THE VEIN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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