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Wright Canyon Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044133
MRDS ID M231478
Record type Site
Current site name Wright Canyon Mine
Alternate or previous names Unnamed Tungsten Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.1893, 40.39072 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position NORTHSIDE OF WRIGHTS CANYON, Unknown Precision +/-700 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Congress Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 034E 07 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.1893, 40.39072
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • SCHEELITE DIFFICULT TO SEE UNLESS ROCK IS PANNED. AN INCH THICK VEIN OF CHLOROPAL WAS FOUND.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rye Patch District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • A PROSPECT HOLE 10 FT DEEP

Comments on development

  • THIS WAS THE FIRST TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT DISCOVERED IN THE DISTRICT, BUT IT HAS NOT BEEN MINED SINCE A SMALL PRODUCTION- IN 1917-1918. A SHALLOW OPEN PIT ABOUT 10 FT DEEP, EXCAVATED -BY THOMAS D. ARNOLD AND F. L. FRAZIER WAS THE ONLY MINE WORKIN-G.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HESS & LARSEN, 1922, CONTACT-METAMORPHIC TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.: USGS BULL. 725-D

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE PROSPECT HOLE EXPOSES 7 FT OF CONTACT-METAMORPHOSED LIMESTON. THE BLOCK APPEARS TO BE SMALL. SMALL AMOUNTS OF SCHEELITE OCCUR IN METAMORPHOSED SILICEOUS LIMESTONE OVER A WIDE AREA ON THE EAST SIDE OF A SMAL-L GRANODIORITE INTRUSION. A THIN VEINLET OF CHLOROPAL, ABOUT O-NE INCH WIDE WAS ALSO REPORTED TO OCCUR WITH THE TUNGSTEN DEPO-SIT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-80 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-86 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-94 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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