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Windous

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Magnesite
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037280
MRDS ID M031243
Record type Site
Current site name Windous
Related records 10183917

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.14115, 38.92966 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Hole Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Duckwater(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

White(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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
12N 61E 05,06 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Magnesite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Magnesite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE TO WASTE RATIO IS 1:8

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    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 Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.14115, 38.92966
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Faulting

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE MAGNESITE FORMS DENSE WHITE NODULES THAT RANGE IN LENGTH FROM A FRACTION OF AN INCH TO SEVERAL FT WITHIN THE MASS OF ALTERED MATERIAL MAGNESITE OCCURS THROUGH A ZONE 1000 FEET LONG AND UP TO 200 FEET WIDE, WITH NODULES IN THE CENTRAL PART, AND AT THE N & S ENDS A FEW VEINS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Currant Creek

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner C. E. Munson
    First year 1951

Comments on the production information

  • NO RECORDED PRODUCTION OF THE MAGNESITE, ONLY AN EDUCATED GUESS BY THE USGS, 1943, FOR THE DEWEY LITE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 198.42M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS OF MANY PITS AND TWO TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VITALIANO, CHARLES J., 1951 MAGNESIUM-MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE CURRANT CREEK DISTRICT NEV. U.S. GEO BULL 978

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R.K., BLAKE, M.C.JR., AND SMITH, R.M., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 85

  • Production

    HOSE, ET.AL., 1976

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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