Indian Trail Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Production statistics
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044519
MRDS ID M231968
Record type Site
Current site name Indian Trail Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.0592, 37.22385 (WGS84)
Elevation 1533
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position SOUTHWEST OF THE CLIMAX MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Oak Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pahute Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOE(Federal land areas administered by DOE)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.0592, 37.22385

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Oak Spring District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Speirs, Owen R. And Others
    First year 1951

Production statistics

  • Year 1940
    Material ORE-W
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^0.94% Wo3.
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Wo3 Ore Tungsten Tungsten 1wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHALLOW INCLINE SHAFT OPENED INTO AN OPEN PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 14

  • Production

    KRAL, 1951, P. 140.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-81 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) 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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