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Grand View Prospect

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Lead
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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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037295
MRDS ID M031260
Record type Site
Current site name Grand View Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.31002, 39.3755 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286
Relative position ON NW SLOPE OF MOUNT MORIAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Third Butte East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(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

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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 018N 68E 34 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified Limestone

Analytical data

Result UP TO 7% WO3 ASSAYED

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.31002, 39.3755
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Intrusives And Thrust Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 4.57M

Comments on the geologic information

  • COARSE GRAINED SCHEELITE IN 3 FT OF SILICIFIED LIMESTONE BORDER A 6 IN. STREAK OF GALENA-BEARING QUARTZ AND CALCITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1943
Discoverer William W. Choate

Mining district

District name Mount Moriah Area

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT 16 FT X 4 FT X 8 FT DEEP.

Comments on development

  • ONLY A FEW TONS OF ORE WERE FOUND

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COARSE-GRAINED SCHEELITE IN 3 FT OF SILICIFIED LIMESTONE BORDERS A 6-INCH STREAK OF GALENA-BEARING QUARTZ AND CALCITE. SCHEELITE OCCURS AS COARSE CRYSTALS AND THIN VEINLETS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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