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Teacup Biscuit Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver, Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101411
MRDS ID D001193
Record type Site
Current site name Teacup Biscuit Mine
Alternate or previous names Biscuit
Related records 10223138, 10310454

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.91781, 39.92771 (WGS84)
Elevation 2499
Relative position 2 1/2 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHERRY CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Exchequer Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(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
24N 63E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Scheelite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 85
USGS model code 22c
Deposit model name Polymetallic veins
Mark3 model number 46

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.91781, 39.92771
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • WHITE QUARTZ LENSE LIKE BODIES, IN SOME PLACES SPECKLED WITH MINUTE PARTICLES OF A SOFT BLACK METALLIC APPEARING MATERIAL WITH AG AND A LITTLE CU AND S. A SMALL AMOUNT OF CU CARBONATE HAS BEEN DEPOSITED ON THE JOINTS OF THE RICHER ORE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cherry Creek (Gold Canyon, Egan Canyon)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • IT IS SAID TO HAVE PRODUCED 3 MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF SILVER (1916) AMOUNT OF WO3 IS FROM 20,906 TONS OF ORE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 335.28M

Comments on the workings information

  • THERE ARE MANY DRIFTS AT MANY LEVELS IN THE SHAFT, BUT NONE APPEAR TO BE LONG, AND MOST OF THEM WERE CAVED IN (OCT, 1913)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, GEORGE H. JR, FEB, 1950, INVESTIGATION OF CHERRY CREEK TUNGSTEN DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO., NEV., BUREAU OF MINES REPORT OF INVESTIGATIONS 4631

  • Deposit

    LEMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA

  • Deposit

    LEMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962 TUNGSTEN IN THE US USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    HILL, JAMES M., 1916 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICT IN EASTERN NEVADA, US GEO. BULL. 648

  • Production

    UPDATE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

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