Bataan, Mabel, and Mollie Claims

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Production statistics
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008835
MRDS ID D001276
Record type Site
Current site name Bataan, Mabel, and Mollie Claims
Alternate or previous names Farrington and Gilbert Mine, Olga
Related records 10222353

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.32734, 38.44798 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mable Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 07N 033E 21 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = MABLE MOUNTAIN (1967) 1:24000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE: 0.2 TO 0.8% WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granitic Rocks
    Rock description Granitic Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Luning
    Rock description Luning

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.32734, 38.44798

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Garfield District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Production statistics

  • Year 1917
    Period 1915-1917
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Ore Copper Copper 17wt-pct
  • Year 1955
    Period 1953-1955
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Wo3 Tungsten Tungsten 0wt-pct

Comments on development

  • 1915-1916 WORKED FOR CU; IN 1943 SCHEELITE FOUND BY F. AND L.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NBM BULL., STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP. JAN. 1984)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 0.2% WO3 IN QUARTZ-LIMONITE GOSSON ALONG GRANITE - LIMESTONE FAULT CONTACT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit DISSEMINATED SCHEELITE IN TACTITE AND LIMONITIC GOSSAN IN SHEARED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, James E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-FEB-1984 Blaskowski, Michael J. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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