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Wylie Green Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046839
MRDS ID M242055
Record type Site
Current site name Wylie Green Mine
Alternate or previous names Wylie Tungsten Claim, Copper King Mine?

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.28452, 37.24134 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 042E 09,16 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SOUTH SLOPE OF GOLD MOUNTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 1953 WITHIN DIORITE WAS HIGH IN AG, AS, CU, PB, MN, ZN, HG, WITH 2.O PPM AU.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Sylvania Pluton
    Rock description Sylvania Pluton
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Wyman Formation
    Rock description Wyman

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.28452, 37.24134
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
  • General form TABULAR TO IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Tactite At Igneous Contact With Sediments (Garnet, Epidote, Quartz)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tokop (Gold Mountain) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS NOT ACCESSIBLE IN 1984 DUE TO LOCKED DOORS. TWO SURFACE STRUCTURES AND AN ORE BIN.

Comments on development

  • NO ACTIVITY IN LAST SEVERAL YEARS (1984)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, P.59, 71-72, PL.2

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1963, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON WILEY TUNGSTEN CLAIM; NBMG FILE 92, ITEM 10.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION 4-8-84.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHEELITE MINERALIZATION OCCURS FINELY DISSEMINATED IN THE TACTITEAREA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1982 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.

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