Lone Buck Prospect

Occurrence in White Pine 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. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046919
MRDS ID M242148
Record type Site
Current site name Lone Buck Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.34501, 38.80967 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position BETWEEN THE TUNGSTEN QUEEN AND EVERETT MINES

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Minerva Canyon(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 011N 068E 16 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Pole Canyon Limestone
    Rock description Pole Canyon Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.34501, 38.80967

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faulting, Folding

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike E-W
    Dip 45-% N
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 365.76M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault, Strike E-W, Dip 45-70n.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Shoshone (Minerva, Lexington, Tungsten) District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1944
    Total resources 90000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Tungsten Wo3 0.5 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1944

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • "INDICATED ORE"

Comments on the workings information

  • CUT

Comments on development

  • IN 1941 THE USBM CUT SEVERAL SAMPLES ALONG THE OUTCROP OF THE VEIN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOSE, R.K., BLAKE, M.C. JR. & SMITH, R.M., 1976, NBMG BULL 85, PT II, P.76-77

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., 1944, USGS OFR; NBMG FILE 332, ITEM 9.

  • Reserve-Resource

    LEMMON, D.M., 1944, USGS OFR

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SCHEELITE OCCURS IN A QUARTZ VEIN. A SMALL REMNANT OF AN ORE SHOOTIS EXPOSED, 60 FT LONG, 1.8 FT WIDE, AVERAGING ABOUT 1.74% WO3 (ABOUT 200 TONS OF ORE)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-83 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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