Ragged Top Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Beryllium, Tungsten
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Mineral rights holdings
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10174624
MRDS ID D001183
MAS/MILS ID 0320270084
Record type Site
Current site name Ragged Top Mine
Alternate or previous names Ragged Top
Related records 10008789

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -118.79819, 40.05659 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ragged Top Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 025 N 028 E 12 NWNWNW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Beryllium Critical Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Diopside Unknown
Epidote Unknown
Garnet Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Scheelite Unknown

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N45E
    Dip 00S
    Length 244M
    Width 0M
    Depth to top 0M
    Field Value
    Type of Orebody #1 REPLACEMENT
    Primary mode of Origin CONT METASOMATIC
    Primary Ore Control CONTACT ZONE
    Secondary Ore Control LITHOLOGY
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. INTENSE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 CARBONATE SILIC
    Strike And Dip N45E:00S
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 0
    Date of Last Modification 820223

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1916

Mining district

District name Ragged Top

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Field Value
    MAS Development Schedule # 1
    Mining Record # 1
    Hardness of Rock HARDROCK WITH LITTLE WATER
    Rock Support Chars. SUPPORTING
    Mine Support Chars. TIMBER
    Capacity 50
    Capacity Units MT ORE/DAY
    Unit Production Cost 25
    Units of Production $/MT ORE
    Year of Information 1973

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 89, 1977, P. 78, PLATE 2A.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 6902, 1936, P. 26-27.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES PROFESSIONAL PAPER 318, 1959,

  • Deposit

    P. 81-82, FIGURE 15.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 725, 1922, P. 289-291.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, 1996, MLA REPORT IN PREPARATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-NOV-1994 Miller U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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