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Black Mule Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Production statistics
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037301
MRDS ID M031267
Record type Site
Current site name Black Mule Mine
Alternate or previous names Pony Express
Related records 10174894

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.42141, 39.05994 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogum(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 14N 67E 26 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result WO3 AVERAGED 1%

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Wheeler Limestone (Combined Metals Member)
    Rock description Wheeler Limestone (Combined Metals Member)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.42141, 39.05994
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description N-Ne Trending Steeply Dipping Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO PIPELIKE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 39.62M
    Width 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults, Brecciation

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Production statistics

  • Year 1938
    Period 1930-1938, 1941-1943
    Material WO3
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^1.0 % Wo3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Wo3 Tungsten Tungsten 1wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • SEVERAL HUNDRED UNITS OF WO3 PRODUCED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 64.31M

Comments on the workings information

  • NARROW SHAFT 211 FT DEEP WITH ABOUT 1000 FT OF DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS AND RAISES ON 3 LEVELS AT 100, 150, AND 200 FEET.

Comments on development

  • FIRST WORKED AS A GOLD MINE IN THE LATE 1800'S. TUNGSTEN WAS DISCOVERED ABOUT 1930, AFTER WHICH IT WAS OPERATED FOR A SHORT TIME BY THE NEVADA-MASSACHUSETTS CO., AND LATER IN 1942-43 BY THE GILDED AGE MINING CO.

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 ON TUNGSTEN IN NEVADA; IN PREPARATION.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1963, UNPUB. DATA, NBMG FILE 335 ITEM 10.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 19838 MILS DATA

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    STAGER, H.K., IN PREP.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD CAME FROM A NARROW QUARTZ VEIN. SCHEELITE OCCURS IN A NARROW QUARTZ VEIN ALONG A FAULT CUTTING SEDIMENTARY ROCKS, AND IN ALTERED LIMESTONE ADJACENT TO THE VEIN.
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870'S

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

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