Stank and Forge Lease

The Stank and Forge Lease is a tungsten mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,351 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Stank and Forge Lease
Secondary: NBMG Sample Site 2658

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Molybdenum

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Mill City District

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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

Type: Surface/Underground

Ownership

Not available

Production

Year: 1919
Time Period: 1917-1919
Material type: ORE W
Description: Cp_Grade: ^3.10 % W03

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1914
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: L

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: W skarn

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: R
Description: Stank-Fault

Type: L
Description: Pre-Mineral And Post-Mineral Faults

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: SAMPLE 2658, A DUMP SAMPLE OF SCHEELITE-BEARING SKARN CONTAINS 3% FE, 0.5 % MG, 5% CA, 0.1 % TI, 2000 PPM MN, 20 P-PM AG, 1.5 PPM BE, 150 PPM BI, 20 PPM CO, 10 PPM CR, 500 PPM C-U, 30 PPM LA, 150 PPM MO, 5 PPM NI, 150 PPM PB, 5 PPM SC, 300 -PPM SR, 100 PPM V, 200 PPM W, 10 PPM Y, 50 PPM ZR.

Materials

Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Molybdenite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Epidote

Comments

Comment (Location): ON EAST SIDE OF STANK HILL

Comment (Production): LATER PRODUCTION WAS NOT RECORDED SEPARATELY FROM OTHER DISTRICT MINES

Comment (Geology): IN LOWER LEVELS OF STANK MINE THE PRE-MINERAL FAULT PLANE APPEARS TO HAVE ROTATED BY THE POST-MINERAL FAULT SYSTEM.

Comment (Deposit): IN LOWER LEVELS OF STANK MINE THE PRE-MINERAL FAULT PLANE APPEARS TO HAVE ROTATED BY THE POST-MINERAL FAULT SYSTEM.THE STANK SEGMENT OF THE HUMBOLDT BED IS TRACEABLE BY SURFACE OUTCROPS FROM THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE SPRINGER STO-CK, AT THE FOOT OF STANK HILL, THROUGH THE SADDLE WEST OF STAN-K HILL, ACROSS STANK CANYON AND UPSLOPE TO THE SOUTH, WHERE IT-IS CUT AND OFFSET BY THE STANK FAULT SOUTH OF THE CODD MINE WO-RKINGS. STANK FAULT DIPS SW, AND THE SOUTHERN EXTENSION OF THE- TACTITE BED THEREFORE MOVES TO THE SOUTH WITH DEPTH IN THE MI-NE. TO THE NORTH, THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF THE BED IS FORMED B-Y THE CONTACT WITH THE SPRINGER STOCK. THIS CONTACT ALSO DIPS -TO THE SOUTH GIVING THE STANK TACTITE BODY THE SHAPE OF A PAR-ALLELOGRAM THAT RAKES TO THE SOUTH. ALTHOUGH PARTS OF THE OREB-ODY WERE OF VERY GOOD GRADE, LARGE BLOCKS OF LOW-GRADE, UNALTE-RED LIMESTONE AND MARBLE OCCUR WITHIN THE LIMITS OF THE OREBOD-Y. UNDERGROUND, THE OREBODY IS CUT BY 2 MAJOR GRANODIORITE DIK-ES, AND AN

Comment (Deposit): THE STANK MINE IS OPEN TO A VERTICAL DEPTH OF ABOUT 1,200 FT. THROUGH AN INCLINED SHAFT TO 700 LEVEL, A WINZE FROM THE 700 TO 1200 LEVEL. IN 1944-45 COROSSCUTS WERE EXTENDED WEST TO THE YELLOW SCHEELITE BED ON THE 300 AND 400 LEVELS. THE STANK MINE IS ON STANK-HUMBOLDT BELT ALONG WITH THE CODD, YELLOW SCHEELITE, KEYES, GEORGE, SPRINGER, AND HUMBOLDT MINES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Comment (Workings): AN INCLINED SHAFT TO THE 700 LEVEL, D WINZE FROM THE 700 TO 1200 LEVEL. IN 1944-45 CROSSCUTS WERE EXTENDED WEST TO THE YELLOW SCHEELITE BED ON THE 300 AND 400 LEVELS.

Comment (Development): STANK FOUND A HEAVY WHITE MINERAL (SCHEELITE) WHILE PANNING FOR SILVER IN WHAT WAS LATER NAMED STANK CANYON. HE IG-NORED IT AT THAT TIME BUT RECALLED HIS FINDINGS WHEN IN 1917, -TUNGSTEN BECAME A SOUGHT-AFTER WAR MATERIAL. HE AND OTHERS RET-URNED TO THE DISTRICT AND STAKED CLAIMS ON STANK HILL. THESE E-ARLY CLAIMS AND OTHERS TO THE EAST ON SUTTON HILL WERE ACQUIRE-D BY PACIFIC TUNGSTEN COMPANY, WHO MINED IT PRODUCTIVELY UNTIL- CONSOLIDATION IN 1925 BY THE NEVADA MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY, WH- O DEVELOPED AND MINED IT THROUGH A 2-COMPARTMENT INCLINED SHA- FT AND WINZE. OPERATIONS CEASED IN 1958.

Comment (Deposit): ANDESITE DIKE, AS WELL AS BOTH PRE-MINERAL AND POST--MINERAL FAULTS.

References

Reference (Deposit): TINGLEY, J. V., 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.

Reference (Production): STAGER, IN PREP

Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H. K., IN PREP, NBMG BULL ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., 1977, IN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING CO., NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89

Reference (Deposit): KERR, 1934, GEOLOGY OF THE TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS NEAR MILL CITY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 21

Reference (Deposit): KERR, 1946, TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: GSA MEMOIR 15

Reference (Deposit): SCHILLING, 1962, MOLYBDENUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG REPORT 2

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.