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Green Talc Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Kyanite, Corundum, Aluminum
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  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 10069795
MRDS ID W007484
Record type Site
Current site name Green Talc Mine
Alternate or previous names Bismark, Deep Mines
Related records 10173770

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.50096, 38.61659 (WGS84)
Relative position EAST OF SO END WALKER LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hawthorne East(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Walker Lake(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
008N 031E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Kyanite Primary
Corundum Tertiary
Aluminum Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Andalusite Ore
Corundum Ore
Diaspore Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Altered Metavolcanics And Schist
    Rock description Altered Metavolcanics And Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.50096, 38.61659
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR LENS
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 914.4M
    Depth to bottom 30.48M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ANDALUSITE, CORUNDUM, DIASPORE AND OTHER ALUMINOUS MINERALS OCCUR IN IRREGULAR SILICIFIED ZONES IN ALTERED METAVOLCANICS AND SCHIST

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Fitting

Comments on the production information

  • SOME KYANITE PRODUCED IN 1949.

Comments on development

  • DEPOSIT EXPLORED AS D.M.E.A. PROJECT 2512, 1952 - 54. SOME ORE MINED IN 1949. HAS BEEN STUDIED IN ADEQUATE DETAIL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BODENLOS, A. J., 1954, GREEN TALC AND BISMARK MINES, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FILE ON D.M.E.A. 2512 (CORUNDUM - ANDALUSITE) CORANDA CORP

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORIGINAL RECORD GROUPS THREE MINES WHICH ARE GEOGRAPHIC/GEOLOGICALLY DISTINCTIVE SITES. UPDATED FILE ISOLATES AND DESCRIBES EACH INDIVIDUALLY

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1974 Espenshade, Gilbert H. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

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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