1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Unnamed Tungsten Prospects

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042426
MRDS ID M060218
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Tungsten Prospects
Related records 10247716

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.95433, 40.56211 (WGS84)
Relative position SOUTH SIDE OF WILLOW GULCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dead Horse Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031N 027E 09 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM LOCATION IS ESTIMATED; UNCERTAIN; REPORTER REFERENCED THE "LOVELOCK NK 11-10 (1955)" QUADRANGLE MAP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 42
USGS model code 14a
Deposit model name W skarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SCHEELITE OCCURS IN TACTITE IN PIECES AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER BUT MOSTLY MUCH SMALLER, VISIBLY FOLLOWING PLANES IN THE GARNET OR IN QUARTZ. THERE ARE TWO PRINCIPLE INCLUSIONS OF LIMESTONE ON SOUTH SIDE OF WILLOW GULCH WITH A LENGTH OF SOME HUNDREDS OF FEET, INTERRUPTED BY GRANODIORITE DIKES, AND AN EXPOSED WIDTH OF 25 FEET. PART OF GRANODIORITE NEAR THE DEPOSITS IS PROMINENTLY SHEETED IN PLATES 2 TO 6 FT. THICK, DIPPING 50 DEGREE N. 40 DEGREE W.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Staggs District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HESS AND LARSEN, 1922, CONTACT METAMORPHIC TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.; USGS BULL. 725 D, P. 293

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 89

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHEELITE OCCURS IN TACTITE IN PIECES AS MUCH AS 2 INCHES IN DIAMETER, BUT MOSTLY MUCH SMALLER, VISIBLY FOLLOWING PLANES IN THE GARNET OR IN QUARTZ. THERE ARE TWO PRINCIPLE INCLUSIONS OF LIMESTONE ON SOUTH SIDE OF WILLOW GULCH WITH A LENGTH OF SOME HUNDREDS OF FEET, INTERRUPTED BY GRANODIORITE DIKES, AND AN EXPOSED WIDTH OF 25 FEET. PART OF GRANODIORITE NEAR THE DEPOSITS IS PROMINENTLY SHEETED IN PLATES 2 TO 6 FT. THICK, DIPPING 50 DEGREES N. 40 DEGREES W.
Deposit PART OF A GROUP OF TACTITE BODIES IN AND AROUND A SMALL VALLEY CALLED WILLOW GULCH IN THE LAVA BED MTNS. EXTENT OF THESE DEPOSITS IS UNCERTAIN AS THE ROCKS ARE PARTLY COVERED BY SOIL ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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