| Deposit ID | 10045461 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M233207 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Flying Cloud Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Oddie and Giovanni, Babcock |
| Geographic coordinates: | -118.63513, 38.40881 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2316 |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Mineral(county)
Nevada(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Lucky Boy(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)
Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)
Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)
Great Basin(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)
National Forest FS(Type of land area)
FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Nevada | Mineral |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Diablo | 006N | 030E | 04 | Nevada |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Tungsten Critical | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Diopside | Gangue |
| Garnet | Gangue |
| Hornblende | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Model code | 42 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 14a |
| Deposit model name | W skarn |
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite | ||||
| |||||
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite |
| Rock unit name | Granitic Rocks |
| Rock description | Granitic Rocks |
| (1) | -118.63513, 38.40881 |
|---|
| Thickness | 6.1M |
|---|---|
| Length | 60.96M |
| Width | 39.62M |
| Development status | Occurrence |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| District name | Hawthorne District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Senator Oddie And Siri Giovanni |
| First year | 1921 |
| Year | 1956 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period | 1951-1956 | ||||||||||||||
| Material | W | ||||||||||||||
| Accuracy | Accurate | ||||||||||||||
| Description | Cp_Grade: ^Avg. 1.0 Percent Wo3 | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M233207 |
HESS AND LARSEN, 1921, CONTACT-METAMORPHIC TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES; USGS BULL. 725-D
NBM BULL., STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP. JAN. 1984)
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | TACTITE IS HARD AND COMPACT CONTAINING GARNET, SOME QUARTZ, HORNBLENDE, CALCITE, AND A LITTEL DIOPSIDE AND SCHEELITE. TACTITE WAS SHATTERED AFTER FORMED AND THE FRACTURES WERE HEALED BY VEINLETS OF NEW GARNET WITH MUCH QUARTZ AND SOME DIOPSIDE, AMPHIBOLE AND SCHEELITE. MOST OF SCHEELITE IN THESE VEINLETS. |
| Deposit | TUNGSTEN CLAIMS ON CREST OF HIGH RIDGE AND RATHER DIFFICULT OF ACCESS. DEPOSIT CONTAINS AN ESTIMATED 25,000 TONS OF TACTITE AVERAGING 0.5% WO3. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-APR-1981 | Royse, Sue E. | Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology | |
| Updater | 01-FEB-1984 | Blaskowski, Michael J. (Elliott, James E.) | U.S. Geological Survey |
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