Reward Prospects

Occurrence in Lander county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Molybdenum, Lead, Bismuth, Manganese
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10094697
MRDS ID D011343
Record type Site
Current site name Reward Prospects
Alternate or previous names Dawn, Cadro, Trap, Pacific, Livingood, Boomer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.25094, 39.73324 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lander(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Airy NE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Reese(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Lander

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
021N;022N 042E;042E 3,4;27,28,32,33,34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • THE REWARD, ET AL., PROSPECTS INCLUDE A NUMBER OF KNOWN W OCCUR. IN AN AREA OF ABOUT 10 SQ. MI. IN THE S. PART OF THE RAVENSWOOD DISTRICT.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Secondary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Secondary
Molybdenum Secondary
Lead Tertiary
Bismuth Critical Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Huebnerite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 46
USGS model code 15a
Deposit model name W veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.25094, 39.73324

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ravenswood

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBM BULL., STAGER H.K. (IN PREP. JAN. 1984)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME MATERIAL SAMPLED FROM PROSPECT PITS CONTAINED GREATER THAN 3 PERCENT WO3

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 Bishop, Blaskowski, Michael J. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.