Monte Cristo W-Cu-Mo Deposit

Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
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. Mineral rights holdings
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107655
MRDS ID D001192
MAS/MILS ID 0320330038
Record type Site
Current site name Monte Cristo W-Cu-Mo Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -115.565, 39.427 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

East of Pancake Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Hamilton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Smoky-Newark 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 016N 057E 16,21,28 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • I used Long's significant deposit location.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 42
USGS model code 14a
Deposit model name W skarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -115.565, 39.427

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name White Pine

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Phillips Petroleum Co.
    Year 2009
    First year 1968

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MIN BULL 57, 1960.

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MIN BULL 65, 1964, PP.158-159.

  • Deposit

    Moran, A.V., Pennigton, J.B., Poeck, Joanna, Osborne, Herb, Mike, 2009, Updated NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment Ely Gold & Minerals Inc. Centennial Gold and Silver Deposit Mt. Hamilton Property, White Pine County, Nevada:Prepared for Ely Gold & Minerals Inc., by SRK Consulting, SRK Project Number: 181703, 136 p.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
General This deposit was tagged by Keith Long as a significant US tungsten deposit. Overlapping this is a gold-silver deposit. See Moran and others (2009).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-74 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 13-DEC-10 Causey, J. Douglas U.S. Geological Survey Combined info from MAS record 0320330038 (Dep_ID 10272038) and deleted that record.

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.