Golden Scheelite Prospect

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047493
MRDS ID M242852
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Scheelite Prospect
Alternate or previous names Lincoln and Greenhorn Groups of Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.86795, 41.51626 (WGS84)
Elevation 1686

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New York Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denio(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Humboldt

Comments on the location information

  • ON A NORTH FORK OF BARTLETT CREEK ABOUT 1 MILE SW OF TOP OF BARTLETT PEAK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Powellite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 42
USGS model code 14a
Deposit model name W skarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.86795, 41.51626

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Igneous Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Varyville District

Comments on the workings information

  • 50 FT LONG OPEN CUT, 15 FT WIDE AND 15 FT DEEP, 60 FT LONG TRENCH, 20 FT TRENCH, OTHER SHALLOW SMALL TRENCHES.

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY WAS EXPLORED IN 1953 AND 1954. A SINGLE TRUCKLOAD OF ORE WAS SHIPPED TO THE GETCHELL MILL IN 1953 CONTAINING 6 TONS OF 0.71 % WO3 ORE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    STAGER, H.K. AND TINGLEY, J.V., IN PREPARATION, NBMG BULL ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1964, NBMG BULL. 59, PL. 1.

  • Production

    STAGER, (IN PREP.)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD HAS BEEN MERGED WITH D011055, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.
Deposit CLAIM AREA IS UNDERLAIN BY METAMORPHIC ROCKS ENCLOSED BY QUARTZ MONZONITE. SCHEELITE-BEARING TACTITE OCCURS ALONG AND NEAR CONTACTS OF BIOTITE-FELDSPAR QUARTZ SCHIST WITH THE GRANITIC ROCK. EXPOSURES ARE POOR, BUT SCHEELITE APPEARS TO BE PRESENT IN ALL THE TACTITE, WHICH IS COMPOSED MAINLY OF PYROXENE, GARNET, AMPHIBOLE EPIDOTE, AND QUARTZ. MUCH OF THE SCHEELITE FLUORESCES CANARY YELLOW, INDICATIVE OF HIGH MOLYBDENUM CONTENT. TACTITE BODIES APPEAR TO BE SMALL AND TUNGSTEN CONTENT IS GENERALLY LOW, RANGING FROM 0.01 % TO 2 %, BUT AVERAGING ONLY ABOUT 0.25 % WO3.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1984 Blaskowski, Michael J. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1987 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAY-1987 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-APR-1993 Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Moyer, Lorre A.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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