Chance Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver
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. 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 10037267
MRDS ID M031229
Record type Site
Current site name Chance Mine
Related records 10126185

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.90531, 39.9341 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Exchequer Spring(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
24N 63E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.90531, 39.9341

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CALCITE OR QUARTZ-CALCITE VEINLETS AND PODS, IN LENS-SHAPED SWARMS NEAR BEDDING FAULTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cherry Creek (Gold Canyon, Egan Canyon)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION OF W GIVEN; CHANCE AND TICUP MINES COMBINED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, GEORGE H. JR FEB 1950, INVESTIGATION OF CHERRY CREEK TUNGSTEN DISTRICT WHITE PINE CO. NEV, BUREAU OF MINE REPORT ON INVESTIGATION 4631

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M. 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA, U.S. GEO BULL 648

  • Deposit

    HOSE, BLAKE, SMITH 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE CO. NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 85

  • Production

    HOSE, ET. AL., 1976

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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