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Rose Creek Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Copper, Zinc, Molybdenum, Arsenic, 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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Production statistics
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008790
MRDS ID D001179
Record type Site
Current site name Rose Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Rose Creek Tungsten Mine, NBMG Sample Site 2344.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.85791, 40.85211 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Relative position 3 MILES SOUTH OF ROSE CREEK STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rose Creek Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(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)

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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 034N 037E 6 SW OF NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH END OF EAST RANGE, APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES EAST OF ROSE CREEK. UTM IS UPPER ADIT WHERE NBMG SAMPLE TAKEN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Secondary
Copper Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Actinolite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Feldspar Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillite To Hornfels

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 2344 IS SELECT DUMP SAMPLE OF SCHEELITE-BEARING QUARTZ, SULFIDE-RICH SKARN AND GRANODIORITE CONTAINS 20 % FE
Result 7 % MG
Result 10 % CA
Result 0.2 % TI
Result 5000 PPM MN
Result 15 PPM AG
Result 50 PPM B
Result 700 PPM BA
Result 10 PPM BE
Result 70 PPM CO
Result 100 PPM CR
Result 5000 PPM CU
Result 20 PPM MO
Result 20 PPM NI
Result 50 PPM PB
Result 15 PPM SC
Result 300 PPM SR
Result 300 PPM V
Result 1000 PPM W
Result 15 PPM Y
Result AND 100 PPM ZR. SHEELITE HAS 0.05 - 1.8 % MO.

Mineral occurrence model information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Rock unit name Winnemucca;Winnemucca;Winnemucca
    Rock description Winnemucca;Winnemucca;Winnemucca

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.85791, 40.85211
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Dikes And Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults, Basic Dikes

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL, TABULAR
    Strike E-NE
    Dip 30-45N
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 121.92M
    Width 60.96M
    Depth to bottom 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Argillite Beds

Comments on the geologic information

  • EXPOSED ROCKS ARE DOLOMITE, LIMESTONE, ARGILLITE AND QUARTZITE, INTRUDED BY GRANODIORITE, LAMPROPHYRE, AND DIABASE. CALCAREOUS ARGILLITE BEDS ARE CHANGED TO SKARN FOR SEVERAL HUNDREDS OF FEET FROM IGNEOUS CONTACT. THE SKARN CONSISTS LARGELY OF DIOPSIDE, ACTINOLITE, EPIDOTE, QUARTZ, FELDSPAR, AND CALCITE, WITH SMALL QUANTITIES OF SCHEELITE, PYRITE, MOLYBDENITE, SPHALERITE, ARSENOPYRITE, AND CHALCOPYRITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1865
Discoverer Ed Christierson And George Howe (Tungsten)
Year of first production 1943
Year of last production 1955

Mining district

District name Rose Creek District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner W. C. Rigg Leo K. Johnson
    First year 1942
    Last year 1956
  • Type Owner
    Owner U.S. Vanadium Corp.
    First year 1937

Production statistics

  • Year 1944
    Period 1943-1944
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Wo3 Tungsten Tungsten 2wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • STOPES, DRIFTS

Comments on development

  • FIRST LOCATED FOR COPPER AND GOLD BUT NO EXPLORATORY WORK WAS DONE UNTIL TUNGSTEN WAS DISCOVERED. SHEELITE WAS MINED FROM TACTITE BUT NOT FROM QUARTZ VEINS. ALTHOUGH DEVELOPMENT BEGAN IN 1937, MINING OCCURRED BETWEEN 1943-44 AND 1954-55.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TUNGSTEN CONTENT RANGES FROM 1.3 TO 5 % WO3, AS MUCH AS 1.5 % CU AND AS MUCH AS 0.14 OZ AU/TON. DEPOSIT IS PARALLEL TO ENCLOSING ARGILLITE THAT THINS AND SWELLS ALONG STRIKE AND DOWN DIP. SCHEELITE OCCURS IN THE TACTITE AND IN QUARTZ VEINS THAT CUT THE OTHER ROCKS. SCHEELITE FORMS SUBHEDRAL TO EUHEDRAL GRAINS AND IS COMMONLY DISSEMINATED THROUGH THE TACTITE, BUT LOCALLY THE GRAINS ARE DISTRIBUTED ALONG CRACKS OR OCCUR IN SMALL QUARTZ VEINLETS. THE SCHEELITE FLUORESCES WHITE AND YELLOW DUE TO VARYING MOLYBDENUM CONTENT. PARTS OF THE TACTITE BED CONTAIN ABNORMAL AMOUNTS OF BERYLLIUM BUT THE DISTRIBUTION IS IRREGULAR.
Deposit 2 ADITS WITH ABOUT 400 FEET OF DRIFTS, AN INCLINED WINZE, THREE RAISES AND A SUBLEVEL 35 FEET BELOW THE MAIN LEVEL. THE ORE WAS STOPED 200 FEET TO THE SURFACE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit THIS RECORD HAS BEEN MERGED WITH M060456, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1860S (1936 TUNGSTEN)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, J.E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1979 Donahoe, James L. (Johnson, M.G.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-FEB-1981 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-APR-1993 Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1993 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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