The Unnamed Prospect Tungsten is a mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,558 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,558 Feet (1,999 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 37.96, -118.36861
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Unnamed Prospect Tungsten MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Unnamed Prospect Tungsten
Commodity
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Buena Vista District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Contact Metamorphic
Operation Type: Unknown
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: White Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Fluorite
Comments
Comment (Location): 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1962 EDITION
References
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., UNPUBLISHED DATA.
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., AND TWETO, O.L., 1962, TUNGSTEN IN THE U.S., USGS MAP, MR-25.
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 58, P. 80.
Reference (Deposit): CROWDER, D.F., ROBINSON, P.F., AND HARRIS, D.L., 1972, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BENTON QUADRANGLE: USGS MAP GQ-1013.
Reference (Deposit): 5) LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: RENO, NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBL. CO., P. 140.
Reference (Deposit): 6) SCHILLING, J.H., 1962, HOLYBDENUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES MAP 8.
Reference (Deposit): 7) SCHILLING, J.H., 1962, AN INVENTORY OF MOLYBDENUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES REPT. 2. A GEN COMBINED WITH RECORD NO. M030121 BY TED G. THEODORE IN 78,02. RECORD M030121 IS DELETED.
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.
