Flurite #2

Occurrence in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095724
MRDS ID M233784
Record type Site
Current site name Flurite #2
Alternate or previous names Vicinity of Birch U Prospect.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.98837, 39.63104 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Telegraph Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Long-Ruby 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 020N 062E 3 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.98837, 39.63104

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • TOP METER OF ADIT (PIT) APPEAR TO BE A CAP OF JASPEROIDED MATERIAL. BELOW THE SILTY MUDSTONE (?) IS CUT WITH PODS OF PURPLE MICRO XTALLINE FLOURITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hunter

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • NEAR NORANDA TONIC CLAIMS.

Comments on development

  • OPEN PIT WITH POSSIBLY CAVED ADIT & SHAFT = 20M APART.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OBSERVATION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1982 Mohsen, Ahmed F. (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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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