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Rees

Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver, Copper
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037285
MRDS ID M031249
Record type Site
Current site name Rees
Related records 10135532

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.28474, 39.75326 (WGS84)
Relative position NW END OF KERN MOUNTAINS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tippett(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 22N 68E 27 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORES AVERAGED 4% WO3, 28 OZ/T AG, 1% CU

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.28474, 39.75326
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pluton Of Monzonite And Quartz Monzonite
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne-Trending Fractures

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact, Tactite, Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN MINED FOR 200 FEET ALONG STRIKE, AND 30 FEET DOWN DIP. ORE IN IRREGULAR LENSES UP TO 50 FEET LONG

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1940

Mining district

District name Eagle

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • REES MINE DISCOVERED IN 1940. PRODUCTION DATA FOR AG AND CU INCLUDE ENTIRE EAGLE DISTRICT PRODUCTION

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WAS DEVELOPED BY AN ADIT 160 FT LONG WITH 2 SMALL STOPES AND SHORT CROSSCUTS, A 50-FT SHAFT, PITS, TRENCHES.

Comments on development

  • CURRENT DEVELOPMENT ONGOING IN 1980

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

    SAYEED, U.A., 1973, UNIV. OF NEBRASKA PH.D. DISS.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAIN VEIN IS EXPOSED ON SURFACE FOR 120 FT, STRONGLY MINERALIZED FOR 70 FT. ORE SHOOTS ARE IRREGULAR, WITH LENSES UP TO 50 FT LONG

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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