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Oak Springtungsten Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gemstone, Gold, Silver, Copper
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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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Reserves and resources
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046757
MRDS ID M241962
Record type Site
Current site name Oak Springtungsten Mine
Alternate or previous names Climax Group, Climax Guard Group, Tamney Tungsten Property, Climax Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.05309, 37.23579 (WGS84)
Elevation 1737
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 75 NW OF INDIAN SPRINGS, NV., Estimated To With In D.S Mile

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

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 053E 18,OZ S2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE. 17 CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gemstone Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Idocrase Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE 0.7% WO3
Result SAMPLE ASSAYED 0.22% WO3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Climax Stock
    Rock description Climax Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Nine Mile (Pogonip Group)
    Rock description Nine Mile (Pogonip Group)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.05309, 37.23579
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 60.96M
  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1905

Mining district

District name Oak Springs District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Pacific Bridge Co.
    Home office San Francisco, Ca
    First year 1951

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1957
    Total resources 2000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Tungsten Wo3 0.1 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1957
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1958
    Total resources 19000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Tungsten Wo3 0.675 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1958

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 701.04M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF 315 FT ADIT WITH 950FT OF LATERALS-PLANS FOR ANOTHER ADIT WERE DROPPED DUE TO GOVERNMENT CLOSURE FOR TONOPAH BOMBING AND GUNNERY RANGE 38 X 69 FT STOPE. (GRANITE ADIT, GOLDFIELD ADIT. CARLISLE ADIT, DMEA DRIFT, BROAD LEDGE ADIT, GOUDLSTOPE.)

Comments on development

  • LOCATED IN 1937 BY V.A. TAMNEY, GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED MINES DID CONSIDERABLE EXPLORATION IN 1938 AND 1940, U.S. VANADIAM CORP. DID COMPLETE SAMPLING JOB IN 1939. SOME ORE REPORTEDLY SHIPPED IN 1917

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E, 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 139-140.

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H.R., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE CO: NBMG BULL. 77, P. 39

  • Deposit

    HILL, J.M., 1938, UNPUBLISHED REPORT NBMG

  • Deposit

    1957, FINAL REPORT: CLIMAX TUNGSTEN CO. (CLIMAX MINE) NYE CO., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND USGS DMEA FILE NO. 4660 (MERCURY).

  • Deposit

    NORBERG, J.R., 1977, USBM, MINERAL RESOURCES IN THE VICINITY OF NELLIS A.F.B., ETC.

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED, USBM DATA, 1963, NBMG FILE 243, ITEM 1.

  • Deposit

    BENSON, B.T., 1954, MEMORANDUM REPORT OF EXAMINATION; OAK SPRING TUNGSTEN, NYE CO., NEV. PROP. FILE NO. 7472.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.S. AND D.E. HIBBARD, 1957, GEOL. OF THE A-EG. PROVING GROUNDS AREA, NEV: USGS BULL 1021-K, PP. 380-381

  • Deposit

    USGS, DMEA 4301, IDM-E1028 (TUNGSTEN) MAPS.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    11) QUADE, J. AND BENTZ, J., 1982-83, FIELD EXAMINATION

  • Production

    NORBERG, J.R., 1977.

  • Reserve-Resource

    JOHNSON & HIBBARD, 1957 P. 381; NORBERG, J.R., 1977, P. 81.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 4-5 ORE SHOWINGS ON PROPERTY-ONE ON GRANITE-LIMESTONE CONTACT, THEOTHERS BED REPLACEMENT IN HANGING WALL OF WIDE, PROMINENT GARNET ZONES. ORE MINERALS OCCUR ASSOCIATED WITH A QUARTZ VEIN IN LIMESTONE. IN PLACCES THE MINERALIZED ZONE EXTENDS OUT INTO THE LIMESTONE FORMING SMALL IREGULAR PODS.-SEVERAL ORE BODIES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-83 Hefner, M.L. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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