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Tungsten Mountain Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Arsenic
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10072142
MRDS ID W016390
Record type Site
Current site name Tungsten Mountain Mine
Alternate or previous names Hilltop Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.75095, 39.66658 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position 4 1/4 MILES NORTH OF BYERS RANCH, Utm Is To Centrally Located Adit

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Byers Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Edwards Creek Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021N 038E 16 S2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • HIGH ON THE NORTH AND EAST FACES OF THE PROMINENT PEAK SE OF TUNGSTEN MOUNTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Garnet Gangue
Idocrase Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silication

Analytical data

Result 2 SAMPLES CONTAINED 1% AND 0.1% W. ONE SAMPLE CONTAINED OVER 10% AS.

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 Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Rock unit name Star Peak Formation
    Rock description Star Peak Formation

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact With Sedimentary Rock

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1954
Year of first production 1954
Year of last production 1980

Mining district

District name Alpine (Clan Alpine, 1864) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Kelrex Gold Corp., J. R. Standley, Agent
    Home office P. O. Box 1107, Fallon, Nv 89406

Comments on the production information

  • CURRENT PRODUCTION IS OF GOLD AND SILVER, ALTHOUGH PAST PRODUCTION PRESUMABLY WAS TUNGSTEN AT LEAST IN PART.

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUTS, ADITS, ON AT LEAST 4 LEVELS.

Comments on development

  • LISTED AS AN ACTIVE UNDERGROUND MINE AND MILL IN 1980, EMPLOYING 5 PERSONS MINING AND MILLING GOLD AND SILVER.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., AND R.C. SPEED, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83

  • Production

    WILLDEN & SPEED (1974): STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES (1981).

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHEELITE IN TACTITE AT CONTACT OF GRANODIORITE WITH SILTSTONE, LIMESTONE AND QUARTZITE.
Deposit EARLY HISTORY IS NOT WELL KNOWN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-81 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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