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Shorter White Claims

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046580
MRDS ID M241765
Record type Site
Current site name Shorter White Claims
Alternate or previous names Part of Daisy Mine - Cromwell

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.70145, 36.87719 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 12S 47E 22 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.70145, 36.87719
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE AREA IS FRACTURED, SHEARED, AND KAOLINIZED WITH SOLUTION CAVITIES FILLED WITH OPALINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Bare Mnt.

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fegert, Earl R.
    Home office 1285 S. Broadway, Othella Wa.
    First year 1980

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • DOUBLE WINZE CAVED, EXPLORATION PITS TRENDING N60E.

Comments on development

  • MINE LAST WORKED 50 YRS AGO BY CRUMWELL WITH BURROS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH/QUADE, 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION, NBMG, 4/21/82

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE DARK YELLOW/PURPLE BANDED, EUHEDRAL CRYSTALIME FLUORITE APPEARS TO FILL HYDROTHERMAL SOLUTION CAVITIES WHICH ARE SURROUNDED BY FE STAINED ALTERATION HALOS. FLUORITE ALSO APPEARS IN STRINGERS AND VEINS WITH VEINS DISCONTINUOUS IN HALOS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1983 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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