Minerva District

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Tungsten, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000044
MRDS ID D001296
Record type District
Current site name Minerva District
Alternate or previous names Scheelite Chief, Silver Bell, Oriole, West Everit, East Everit, Hilltop, Tony, Canary Yellow, Zig Zag Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.35084, 38.79995 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Minerva Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Garrison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(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

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.35084, 38.79995

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name NORMAL FAULTING
Structure description MANY NORMAL FAULTS OF VARYING DIP. 4 GROUPS OF FAULTS BASED ON AGE AND DIP

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1915
Discoverer C.E. Millick, A.G. Millick, Jasper M. Fox
Year of first production 1916

Mining district

District name MINERVA DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.

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.