Mill City District

Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000043
MRDS ID D001295
Record type District
Current site name Mill City District
Alternate or previous names Mill City(Tungsten)

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.13428, 40.78319 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Woody Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) LIMESTONE ALTERED 2000 FT. OUT

Mineral occurrence model information

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.13428, 40.78319

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description STANK FAULT, STRIKE NW, DIP SW GRANODIORITE STOCKS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1917
Year of first production 1918

Mining district

District name MILL CITY DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    KERR, 1934, NEVADA UNIV. BULL., VOL. 28, NO. 2.

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1975, ISOCHRON/WEST. NO. 12, P. 3-4.

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.