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Valley View Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037290
MRDS ID M031254
Record type Site
Current site name Valley View Mine
Related records 10247211

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.9342, 39.60826 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195
Relative position 2 MILES S OF WATER CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Steptoe Ranch(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
20N 063E 7 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

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

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pluton Of Monzonite And Quartz Monzonite

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • SCHEELITE OCCURS SPORADICALLY WITH GALENA IN BRECCIA FRAGMENTS AND IN THE CALCITE CEMENT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Granite (Steptoe) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1954
    Period 1953-1954
    Material W
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Est. To Avg. 1.0 Percent Wo3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Wo3 Tungsten Tungsten 1wt-pct

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

    NBM BULL., STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP. JAN 1984)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1984 Blaskowski, Michael J. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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