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Cherokee Mine

Past Producer in Douglas county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037735
MRDS ID M035916
Record type Site
Current site name Cherokee Mine
Alternate or previous names Tungsten Hills, Walker Maus

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.58127, 38.88102 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position 7.5 MI. EAST - SE OF DRESSLERVILLE ON WEST FLANK PINE NUT RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Douglas(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Siegel(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Carson(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Douglas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012N 021E 25 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1/2 MI. NORTH OF GARDNERVILLE MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.58127, 38.88102
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR BUNCHES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Scheelite Found In Thin Beds Of Tactite Replacing Impure Limestone

Comments on the geologic information

  • LIMESTONE INTERBEDDED WITH HORNFELS; FELSITE DIKES INTRUDE THE SECTION WHICH INCLUDES LIMESTONE WITH SKARN, AND QUARTZ CHLORITE PHYLLITE. LOCALLY IRON-STAINED SMOKEY-GRAY QUARTZ VEINS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SKARN. THE FELSITE DIKES ARE ASSUMED TO BE RELATED TO THE SAME QUARTZ MONZONITE PORPHYRY AT THE ALPINE/GARDNERVILLE MINE TO THE SOUTH. QUARTZ MONZONITE WITH ABUNDANT STOCKWORK VEINING CROPS OUT IMMEDIATEDLY SOUTH OF THE CHEROKEE MINE PIT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1943
Year of last production 1955

Mining district

District name Gardnerville

Comments on the production information

  • COMBINED PRODUCTION WORTH 25,013 DOLLARS

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WORKINGS DID CONSIST OF FOUR SHALLOW SHAFTS , A SHORT ADIT AND NUMEROUS PITS AND TRENCHES. NOW THE AREA OF SHAFTS AND ADIT HAS BEEN OPEN PITTED AND CONSISTS OF A N80W TRENDING PIT ABOUT 200 FT. BY 40 FT. BY 30 FT. DEEP.

Comments on development

  • WORKED BRIEFLY BTWN 1943-44 BY CARSON VALLEY TUNGSTEN OPERATIONS, AND AGAIN BTWN 1954-56 BY SEVERAL OPERATORS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MOORE, J. G., 1969 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LYON, DOUGLAS AND ORMSBY COUNTIES, NEV., NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES, BULLETIN75 .

  • Deposit

    UNPUBL. DMEA COMMODITY SPECIALIST INFORMATION.

  • Deposit

    STAGER, H.K., AND TINGLEY, J.V., 1988, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA, NBMG BULL 105

  • Deposit

    ROXLO, K., AND RANTA, D.E., 1982, PINE NUT PROJECT, 1982 PROGRESS REPORT, CLIMAX MOLYBDENUM CO. REPORT

  • Production

    F( 1 )

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ADJACENT PROPERTY IS THE SITE OF THE ALPINE MILL WHICH WAS KNOWN AS THE LOUFECK MILL IN PRIOR YEARS. IN JULY OF 1953 , 50 TO 75 TONS WERE BEING HANDLED BY ROD MILLING CLOSED CIRCUIT WITH A SCREEN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1988 Tingley, J.V. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1990 Doebrich, J.L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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