West Everit

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037323
MRDS ID M031305
Record type Site
Current site name West Everit
Alternate or previous names Usbm Sample Localities #146-154
Related records 10126531

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.34917, 38.80662 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position ABOUT 0.7 MI SW OF TUNGSTEN QUEEN MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Minerva Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Garrison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 11N 68E 21 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1982)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Analytical data

Result 1956-57 ORE AVERAGED 0.5-3.0 % WO3
Result 1977-78 ORE AVERAGED 0.6-2.5% WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.34917, 38.80662

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip 40N
    Thickness 7.62M
    Length 182.88M
    Width 60.96M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SCHEELITE OCCURS MAINLY IN COARSE CRYSTAL AGGREGATES OR IN VEINLETS IN QUARTZ ALONG FAULTS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Shoshone (Minerva, Lexington, Or Tungston

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • GREATER THAN 3000 UNITS OF WO3 WAS PRODUCED BETWEEN 1956 AND 1957, AND 1977-1978

Comments on development

  • USBM DRILLED THE AREA IN 1940-1943

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NBMG FILE 332, ITEM 2; MINEMAP.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., 1944, USGS OFR; NBMG DISTRICT FILE 332,ITEM 9.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983 OFR MLA 68-83

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1950, R.I. 4648

  • Production

    HOSE, ET.AL., 1976; NBM BULL., STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP. JAN 1984)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-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

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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