Crystal Claims

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044517
MRDS ID M231966
Record type Site
Current site name Crystal Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.06893, 37.22163 (WGS84)
Elevation 1554
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position ONE MILE SW OF THE CLIMAX MINE, Estimated To Within One Mile, Estimated To Within One Mile, Estimated To Within One Mile

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oak Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pahute Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOE(Federal land areas administered by DOE)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

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 > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Goodwin Limestone Of The Pogonip Group
    Rock description Goodwin Limestone Of The Pogonip Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.06893, 37.22163

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Oak Spring District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ninnis, Albert And Others
    First year 1951

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS OF ORE WAS MILLED.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 30 FT SHAFT, A 70 FT SHAFT CONNECTED TO A 150 FT ADIT, AND MUCH TRENCHING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 140

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-81 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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