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Horse Canyon Adit

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046931
MRDS ID M242160
Record type Site
Current site name Horse Canyon Adit
Alternate or previous names Usbm Sample Locality #13.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.36585, 39.0405 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Windy Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(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 014N 068E 32 NE OF NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON WEST SIDE OF HORSE CANYON, TRIBUTARY TO WILLARD CREEK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE #13 (USBM) OF VEIN MATERIAL ASSAYED 0.01%

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.36585, 39.0405
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fault Striking N 20 E, Dip 60 Se Terminates Vein

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 50 W
    Dip 60 NE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT ABOUT 90 FT LONG

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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