| Deposit ID | 10098359 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M030037 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Climax Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Tamney Tungsten Property |
| Geographic coordinates: | -116.05337, 37.23552 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1731 |
| Relative position | 1.34 MILES SE OF OAK SPRING |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Nye(county)
Nevada(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Oak Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Pahute Mesa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)
Hydrologic units (watersheds)
Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)
Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)
Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)
Great Basin(hydrologic region)
Federal lands
DOE(Federal land areas administered by DOE)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Nevada | Nye |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 008N | 053E | Nevada |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Gold | Primary |
| Silver | Primary |
| Molybdenum | Tertiary |
| Tungsten Critical | Tertiary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Powellite | Ore |
| Scheelite | Ore |
| Result | POWELLITE IS 62.4 % MOO3 |
|---|
| Host or associated | Associated | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite | ||||||
| |||||||
| Host or associated | Associated |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite |
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Metamorphic Rock > Skarn (Tactite) |
| Host or associated | Host |
|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone |
| Rock unit name | Ninemile Formation Of The Pogonip Group |
| Rock description | Ninemile Formation Of The Pogonip Group |
| (1) | -116.05337, 37.23552 |
|---|
| Length | 53.34M |
|---|---|
| Width | 2.23M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1937 |
| Discoverer | V.A. Tamney |
| District name | Oak Spring District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Military Reservation |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | U.S. Vanadium Corp. ; Goldfield Consolid. Mines Co. |
| First year | 1939 |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Pacific Bridge Co. |
| Home office | San Francisco, Ca. |
| First year | 1951 |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M030037 |
SCHALLER; 1911 ; MINERALOGICAL NOTES; USGS BULL. 490
BARNES, HARLEY, HOUSER, F.N., AND POOLE, F.G., 1963, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE OAK SPRING QUADRANGLE, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ-214.
HOUSER, F.N., AND POOLE, F.G., 1960, PRELIMINARY GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE CLIMAX STOCK AND VICINITY, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA:USGS MAP I-328.
5) KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 139-140.
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-FEB-1978 | Theodore, Ted G. | U.S. Geological Survey | |
| Updater | 01-APR-1981 | Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) | U.S. Geological Survey |
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