Poljack Property

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Production statistics
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046563
MRDS ID M241748
Record type Site
Current site name Poljack Property
Alternate or previous names Wolframite No 1 and No 2. Claims, Jack Pot Claims, Usbm Sample Localities 18, 19 Ofr Mla 56-83

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.35917, 38.89162 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wheeler Peak(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)

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 013N 068E 20 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 0.75 MILE E. OF RAY SPRING (RAISED SPRING?); 0.5 MILE N OF THE HUB MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Scheelite Ore
Silver Ore
Wolframite Ore
Fluorite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES RANGED FROM 0.02 TO 0.04% WO3 OVER A 2-FT WIDTH. 2 3-INCH CHIP SAMPLES IN 1981 YIELDED 0.3 AND 0.5 OZ/T AG, 0.01 AND 0.03% PB, NO AU, CU, SB, W.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 46
USGS model code 15a
Deposit model name W veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N72E
    Dip 82N
    Thickness 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1939
Discoverer Pete Bremer

Mining district

District name Tungsten (Hub) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Production statistics

  • Year 1929
    Material ORE PBCUAG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Ap_Grade: ^Yielded 6119 Lb Pb
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Ore Lead Lead 2.76mt
  • Year 1944
    Period 1942-1944
    Material WO3
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^200 Lb Sorted Ore Ran 20% Wo3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Tungsten Tungsten 20wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT 25 FT LONG, 20 FT CUT, 500 FT APART; SHALLOW CUTS

Comments on development

  • FIRST WORK DONE BY BREMER WAS FOR GOLD; RELOCATED BY MR. POLJACK IN 1950

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1963, UNPUB. DATA; NBMG FILE 341, ITEM 5

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 56-83.

  • Production

    SMITH, RM, 1976, P. 77; MINING RECORD, 1929 STAGER, H.K., IN PREP.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WOLFRAMITE OCCURS AS DISSEMINATED SMALL CRYSTALS AND AS THIN SEAMS IN QUARTZ. IN PLACES, ESPECIALLY ON THE HANGING WALL SIDE, TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION EXTENDS FOR A SHORT DISTANCE INTO THE GRANITE. 2 VEINS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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