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Little Flower

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Lead, Manganese
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014694
MRDS ID D001257
Record type Site
Current site name Little Flower
Related records 10198319

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.59003, 39.7366 (WGS84)
Elevation 2100
Relative position 30 MILES N OF ELY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silver Canyon(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

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 22N 65E 34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Lead Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Lead Ore
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyodacite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.59003, 39.7366
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Contact Between Limestone And Quartzite

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE OCCURS ALONG FAULT BETWEEN LIMESTONE AND QUARTZITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Aurum (Siegel, Queens Springs Subdistrict)

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOSE, BLAKE & SMITH 1976, GEO. AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE CO NEV., NEV BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 85

  • 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

    STAGER, H.K., NBMG BULL IN PREPARATION ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983 MILS DATA.

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA,ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA; PREPARED FOR BLM.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology 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

Beyond USGS

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

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