Skipper Mine Shipper?

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Gold
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. 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. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046969
MRDS ID M242201
Record type Site
Current site name Skipper Mine Shipper?
Alternate or previous names Lane Tilford Group, Tilford, Skyline, Paycheck, Apex, Hungry Three, Three Sister?, Usbm Sample Locality Ii

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.37585, 39.05827 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogum(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(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
Mount Diablo 014N 068E 29 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON WEST SIDE OF OHIO CANYON UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF CLAIM GROUP AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1983

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Secondary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Iron Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES FROM SKIPPER ADIT CONTAINED 0.3-0.66% WO3 ACROSS 4 FT OF QUARTZ VEIN, DUMP GRAB SAMPLE, (5-FT GRID) IN 1981 LYIELDED 0.7 02/TAG ANND 1.02% PB, NO CU, NO, W, Y.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.37585, 39.05827

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N75W
    Dip 70N
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 243.84M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zone Striking N75w, Dip 70n

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Leased By Associated Tungsten Mines

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 70.1M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 ADITS, 50 AND 130 FT LONG, AND 2 SHAFTS 20 AND 50 FT DEEP WITH A DRIFT 50 FT LONG FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE DEEPER SHAFT; STOPE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R.K., BLAKE, M.C. JR. & SMITH, R.M., 1976, NBMG BULL 85, P. 60-62.

  • Deposit

    STAGER, H.K., NBMG BULL IN PREPARATION ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1963, UNPUB. DATA, NBMG FILE 335, ITEM 8., ITEM 14

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 56-83

  • Deposit

    TERRA DATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA: PREPARED FOR BLM.

  • Production

    STAGER, H.K., NBMG BULL IN PREP.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHEELITE OCCURS IN SEVERAL NARROW STEEPLY DIPPING QUARTZ VEINS IN GRANITE. SCHEELITE IS SPARSE AND OCCURS AS SMALL SPECKS AND CRYSTAL CLUSTERS SURROUNDING SMALL IRON-STAINED CAVITIES IN THE QUARTZ

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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