Oreana Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10265128
MAS/MILS ID 0320270730
Record type Site
Current site name Oreana Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Claim
Geographic coordinates: -118.25678, 40.40349 (WGS84)
Elevation 1475
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rye Patch Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029 N 033 E 03 SE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Claim (1) -118.25678, 40.40349

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE,K.G., NV BUR MINES BULL 93, 1979, P72

  • Deposit

    KERR, P.F., 1938, TUNGTEN MINERALIZATION AT OREANA, NV: ECON

  • Deposit

    GEOL, V33, P39-42.

  • Deposit

    OLSON, J.C., & HINRICHS, E.N., 1960, BERYL-BEARING PEGMATITE

  • Deposit

    IN RUBY MTS & OTHER AREAS OF NV & NW ARIZ: USGS BULL 1082-D.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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