The Ore Drag Mine is a antimony and tungsten mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,001 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,001 Feet (2,134 Meters)
Commodity: Antimony, Tungsten
Lat, Long: 40.56194, -117.43694
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Ore Drag Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Ore Drag Mine
Secondary: Tungsten No.14, Peacock Swackhammer
Secondary: Drag Ore
Commodity
Primary: Antimony
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Iron Hat District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Mark Durfee
Home Office: Battle Mountain
Years: 1957 -
Production
Year: 1941
Time Period: 1935-1941
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1940
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: W skarn
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Two N-Trending Faults
Type: L
Description: Fault Shear Zone
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Kermesite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD HAS BEEN MERGED WITH M060517, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.
Comment (Deposit): SCHEELITE ASSOCIATED WITH STIBNITE ORE IN SHEAR ZONE. STIBNITE OCCURS AS SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED PODS AND STREAKS IN STRINGERS, VEINS AND MASSES OF QUARTZ. SHEAR ZONE ALSO CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNT OF SILVER.; MODEL NAME COULD ALSO BE: SIMPLE SB.
Comment (Location): SOUTH SIDE OF LEE CANYON NEAR CREST OF TOBIN RANGE. IT IS ABOUT 3 MILES VIA STEEP TRAIL FROM NEAREST ROAD, WHICH WAS WASHED OUT (TINGLEY, 1984, UNPUBLISHED NOTES).
References
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., 1945, UNPUBLISHED DATA: NBMG UNPUBLISHED (TINGLEY) FILES.
Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H.K., AND TINGLEY, J.V., 1988, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 105, P. 164-165.
Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, E.F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 61, P. 200.
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89 P.61-62
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W.O., 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY NEVADA: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 6902.
Reference (Deposit): DONAHOE, J. 1979, ORE DRAG MINE, UNPUBLISHED DRAFT CRIB RECORD, UPDATED IN 1984 BY J. TINGLEY, PERSHING COUNTY, IRON HAT DISTRICT: NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY) FILES.
Reference (Production): LAWRENCE (1963)
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
