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Tungsten Queen Property

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Gold, Copper, Lead
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046949
MRDS ID M242180
Record type Site
Current site name Tungsten Queen Property
Alternate or previous names Tungsten Queen Claims No. 1-13

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.37363, 39.15855 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sacramento Pass(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 015N 068E 17,18,19,20 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Along Bedding Horizons In Limestone

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.37363, 39.15855
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS, LENSES, IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Bedding

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Sacramento (Sacramento Pass) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Switzer, K. L.
    Home office 609 W. Ojai Ave., Ojai, Ca.
    First year 1976

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • STOPES

Comments on development

  • PHELPS DODGE OPTIONED THE CLAIMS IN 1975 AND DID GEOLOGIC MAPPING, SAMPLING AND DRILLED 3 DIAMOND DRILL HOLES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TINGLEY, J.V., 1976, REPORT ON TUNGSTEN QUEEN PROPERTY FOR G.E.; NBMG FILE 332, ITEM 9.

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA: PREPARED FOR THE BLM.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PODS OF WHITE, CRYSTALLINE CALCITE OCCUR AS LENSES ALONG BEDDING. OXIDIZED CU AND PB MINERALS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH SOME OF THE VEINS, AND SCHEELITE OCCURS BOTH IN THE CALCITE VEINS AND IN SILICIFIED ZONES IN LIMESTONE NEAR THE VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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