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Unnamed Prospects

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104118
MRDS ID M242176
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.21141, 39.65883 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Mass Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kern Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 021N 069E 29,30,31,32 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SEVERAL WORKINGS IN A 2-3 SQUARE MILE AREA, ON SOUTH SIDE OF KERN MOUNTAINS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Fluorite Ore
Huebnerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 46
USGS model code 15a
Deposit model name W veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Tungstonia Intrusive
    Rock description Tungstonia Intrusive
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Eagle (Kern, Pleasant Valley, Tungstonia) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Area 0HA

Comments on the workings information

  • RECENT BULLDOZER TRENCHING; 2 OLD SHAFTS, ONE VERTICAL, ONE STEEPLY INCLINED; TWO ADITS, ONE 200-300 FT LONG AND ONE ABOUT 50 FT. 2 RECENT DOZER TRENCHES ON RIDGE TOP

Comments on development

  • RECENT BULL DOZER WORK

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JONES, R.B., 1980, FIELD EXAMINATION ON 6-13-80

  • Deposit

    SAYEED, U.A., 1973, PETROLOGY AND STRUCTURE OF THE KERN MOUNTAINS PLUTONIC COMPLEX, WHITE PINE CO., NEV., AND JUAB CO. UTAH; UNIV. OF NEB., PH.D. DISSERTATION.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MILKY WHITE QUARTZ VEINS PARALLEL TO FOLIATION OF PHYLLITE. VEINS VUGGY AND SLIGHTLY IRON-STAINED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-83 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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