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Whitney Group

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037303
MRDS ID M031271
Record type Site
Current site name Whitney Group
Related records 10271702

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.37168, 39.08772 (WGS84)
Elevation 2591

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Windy Peak(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 068E 08 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.37168, 39.08772
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Planes, 60 Deg S Dip

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Dip 60S

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • FAULT PLANES, INDICATED BY SLICKENSIDED SURFACES, HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED AS WALLS IN THE TUNNEL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • CONSIDERABLE ORE HAS BEEN MINED AND MILLED FROM THESE WORKINGS, BUT NO VALUE INFORMATION KNOWN

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL TUNNELS CUT SHALE AND QUARTZITE NEARLY AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE STRIKE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEEKS, F.B., 1908 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OSCEOLA MINING DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO., NEV. U.S. GEO BULL. 340

  • Deposit

    HOSE,R.K., BLAKE, M.C. JR. AND SMITH, R.M., 1976, NBMG BULL 85, PT. II, P. 60-62

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    WEEKS, 1908

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STRATA ARE IN PLACES MUCH BROKEN AND SHATTERED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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