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Red Hawk Mine

Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109648
MRDS ID M060312
Record type Site
Current site name Red Hawk Mine
Alternate or previous names Danner
Related records 10150176, 10310574

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.16848, 40.81683 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Woody Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 034N 034E 16 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Pyroxene Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sphalerite Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE VARIES FROM 0.75 TO 3% WO3

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 42
USGS model code 14a
Deposit model name W skarn

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.16848, 40.81683
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N10E
    Dip 60W

Comments on the geologic information

  • THERE ARE THREE KNOWN LEDGES OF ORE BELIEVED TO BE PART OF ONE CONTINUOUS ORE BED AT LEAST HALF A MILE LONG. SCHEELITE MINERALIZATION WITHIN THE BEDS MAY NOT BE CONTINUOUS, BUT CONFINED TO IRREGULAR SHOOTS AT POINTS FAVORABLE TO MINERAL DEPOSITION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mill City District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • 286 TONS OF 1% WO3 ORE IN 1942; 40 TONS-3% WO3 IN 1917

Comments on the workings information

  • CROSSCUTS, DRIFTS, WINZE

Comments on development

  • IN 1917 THE CLAIMS WERE OWNED BY NAGLE AND CAMPBELL OF WINNEMUCCA WHO DROVE A 40-FT CROSS CUT AND DRIFTED 35 FT ALONG A STEEPLY ORE BED AND SUNK A 20-FT WINZE ON IT. IN 1928 PROPERTY WAS OWNED BY MURPHY AND BRECHTEL OF WINNEMUCCA AND LEASED IT TO LEVERETT DAVIS IN 1942. IN 1950 THE TUNGSTEN LEAD CO. DROVE ABOUT 140 FT OF NEW DRIFTS AND PRODUCED 142 TONS OF NONCOMMERCIAL ORE. BY 1956, R. E. DANNER HAD OBTAINED CONTROL OF THE PROPERTY AND OTHER NEARBY PROSPECTS. A SMALL GRAVITY CONCENTRAT-ING PLANT WAS INSTALLED WEST OF THE FORK IN POLE CANYON. DURIN-G THE LATE 1960'S AND EARLY 1970'S, DANNER PRODUCED SOME SCHEE-LITE CONCENTRATE THAT WAS SOLD TO KENNEMETAL IN FALLON. MOST O-F THE PRODUCTION DURING THIS PERIOD WAS FROM A SMALL OPEN PIT -ALONG THE NORTH BORDER OF SEC. 16,NORTH OF THE OLD RED HAWK AD-IT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON AND BENSON, 1963, TUNGSTEN RESOURCES OF NEVADA: USBM

  • Deposit

    KLEPPER, M.R., 1943, UNPUBLISHED REPORT

  • Deposit

    STAGER, H. K., IN PREP, NBMG BULL ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THERE ARE 3 KNOWN LEDGES OF ORE BELIEVED TO BE PART OF ONE CONTINUOUS PRE BED AT LEAST 1/2 MI LONG. SCHEELITE MINERALIZATION WITHIN THE BEDS MAY NOT BE CONTINUOUS, BUT CONFINED TO IRREGULAR SHOOTS AT POINTS FAVORABLE TO MINERAL DEPOSITION.
Deposit IN 1917 THE CLAIMS WERE OWNED BY NAGLE AND CAMPBELL OF WINNEMUCCA WHO DROVE A 40 FT. CROSS CUT AND DRIFTED 35 FEET ALONG A STEEPLY DIPPING 4 FT ORE BED AND SUNK A 20 FT. WINZE ON IT. IN 1928 PROPERTY WAS OWNED BY MURPHY & BRECHTEL OF WINNEMUCCA AND LEASED IT TO LEVERETT DAVIS IN 1942. IN 1950 THE TUNGSTEN LEAD CO. DROVE ABOUT 140 FT OF NEW DRIFTS AND PRODUCED 142 TONS OF NON-COMMERCIAL ORE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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