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White Eagle Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047109
MRDS ID M242359
Record type Site
Current site name White Eagle Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.75759, 37.43967 (WGS84)
Elevation 1875
Relative position ABOUT 1.5 MILES BY ROAD SOUTH OF DEAN MILL JUNCTION ON NEVADA HIGHWAY 3.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sylvania Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 038E 04 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO ONE OF SEVERAL WORKINGS SCATTERED OVER A. 500 M SQUARE AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MOST ORE IS BROKEN, CONSISTING OF SMALL ROUNDED FRAGMENTS IN FINE-GRAINED FLAKEY MATRIX WITH DOLOMITE FRAGMENTS UP TO A FOOT IN DIAMETER, AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF CALCITE, QUARTZ AND CHLORITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Talc Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Rock unit name Sylvania Pluton
    Rock description Sylvania Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Wyman; Reed Dolomite
    Rock description Wyman;Reed

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.75759, 37.43967
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Fault Terminates Oasis-Palmetto Fault Zone To The Southeast

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES TO IRREGULAR, RAGGED LENSES
    Strike NW-SE
    Dip 55-65E
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 30.48M
    Width 39.62M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 39.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Complex Se-Trending Fault Contact Between Dolomite And Intrusive Rocks

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1931
Discoverer Mrs. Gertrude Dust And Daughter Laurel Dust (Locators)

Mining district

District name Sylvania (Green Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Sierra Talc Owned Some Of The Claims
    First year 1975

Comments on the production information

  • WORKED 1931-1941 BY LESSEES FROM OPEN PIT AND ADIT LEVEL, AND 1942-1943 FROM INCLINED SHAFT SUNK TO EXTRACT DEEPER ORE

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL OPEN PIT AND ADIT LEVEL WITH 300 FT OF WORKINGS INCLUDING A 55-FT WINZE, MAIN SHAFT

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY WAS WORKED BY LESSEES WHO MINED FROM A SMALL OPEN PIT AND FROM AN ADIT LEVEL. AN INCLINED SHAFT WAS SUNK IN 1942 TO A DEPTH OF 50 FT BELOW ADIT LEVEL TO EXTRACT DEEPER ORE. MINE IDLE FROM UNTIL 1943 TO AT LEAST 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, P.63-64, 71

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1975, P.30.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TALC BODIES ARE BORDERED BY FAULTS DIPPING NE TO N AT MODERATE TO STEEP ANGLES. MAIN OREBODY FORMED ALONG THE DOLOMITE-QUARTZ MONZONITE CNTACT AND WAS MINED FROM A 100-FT LONG OPEN PIT. JUST TO THE NORTH IS ANOTHER ORE BODY MINED FROM AN ADIT AND INCLINED SHAFT. IT IS 100 FT LONG. 1-6 FT WIDE AND 130 FT DOWNDIP AT 55 DEGREES -65 DEGREES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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