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Creore Mine

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Copper, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055072
MRDS ID RE00006
Record type Site
Current site name Creore Mine
Alternate or previous names Crehore Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.21402, 39.63435 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

I X L Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS FOR LABELED SHAFT SYMBOL FOR CREORE MINE ON IXL CANYON 7.5'QUAD MAP.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Copper Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.21402, 39.63435
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ixl Canyon

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner L. W. Crehore

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 12.19M

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE ENTRANCE IS A 40 FT. SHAFT ENDING WITH DRIFTS AT THE BOTTOM IN ORE.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: L.W. CREHORE IS SAID TO HAVE SHIPPED 50 TONS OF ORE THAT RAN 31.9% LEAD, 4.2% COPPER AND 13.2 OZ. SILVER TO THE TON, AND 90 TONS OF ORE OF SIMILAR GRADE WAS BLOCKED OUT OF THE MINE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CREORE MINE; IXL CANYON MINING DISTRICT; CHURCHILL COUNTY, NBMG UNPUBLISHED (TINGLEY) MINING DISTRICT FILES.

  • Deposit

    SCHRADER, F.C. UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947: NBMG FILES.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FIELD NOTES FROM PAT DODD FLYNN (NBMG), AUGUST 1980.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.