The Oriole is a tungsten mine located in White Pine county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Oriole MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Oriole
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Secondary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Shoshone (Minerva, Lexington, Or Tungston
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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: 1943
Time Period: 1943
Material type: WO3
Description: Cp_Grade: ^0.4% Wo3,From About 8000 Tons Ore.
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: L
Description: Faults, E Strike, 40-70 Deg N Dip
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: ORE AVERAGED 0.4% WO3. 1981 SAMPLES ASSAYED 0-0.128 OZ/T AU AND 0.30-0.59% W.
Materials
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Production): ORE GRADE RANGED FROM .3% WO3 TO 2.5%. SOME POCKETS HAD UP TO 20% WO3. SCHEELITE CONCENTRATES FROM SOME LOCATIONS HAD UP TO 4 OZ. AG PER TON. FOR PRODUCTION RECORDS, SEE THE CHIEF MINE REPORT, WHICH LISTS THE ENTIRE DISTRICT REPORT. NO BREAKDOWN AVAILABLE . THIS PRODUCTION LISTED MAY INCLUDE ORE FROM OTHER MINES IN THE DISTRICT.
Comment (Deposit): ORIOLE VEIN IS EXPOSED FOR 2000 FT ALONG STRIKE AND IS MOSTLY BARREN EXCEPT FOR SOME COARSELY CRYSTALLINE SCHEELITE ON THE CREST OF THE HILL ABOVE THE MINE AND SOME LOW-GRADE MINERALIZATION IN THE FIRST SEGMENT OF THE VEIN EXPOSED EAST OF CHIEF CANYON. SCHEELITE IS VERY FINE GRAINED IN QUARTZ.
Comment (Workings): 2 SHORT ADITS AT WEST END AND ABOUT 1000 FT OF DRIFTS CROSSCUTS, RAISES, STOPES. 3 SHALLOW DRILLHOLES IN 2 FAULTED SEGMENTS EAST OF THE MINE.
Comment (Geology): THE SCHEELITE OCCURS MAINLY IN COARSE CRYSTAL AGGREGATES OR IN VEINLETS IN QUARTZ ALONG FAULTS
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1982)
Comment (Development): THIS IS THE LEAST DEVELOPED OF THE MAJOR VEINS OF THE DISTRICT. USBM DRILLED THE EAST ORIOLE AREA IN 1940-1943.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): MARGINAL ORE IN 1944
References
Reference (Deposit): HOSE, BLAKE & SMITH 1976, GEO & MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE CO. NEV, NEV BUREAU OF MINES & GEO BULL 85.
Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H.K., NBMG BULL IN PREPARATION ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA.
Reference (Deposit): NBMG FILE 332, MINE MAP, ITEM 2.
Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., 1944, USGS OFR; NBMG FILE 332, ITEM 9.
Reference (Deposit): USBM,1983, MILS DATA
Reference (Deposit): USBM,1983, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 68-83.
Reference (Deposit): USBM,1950, R.I. 4648
Reference (Production): STAGER, H.K., NBMG BULL IN PREP.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): LEMMON, D.M.,1944, USGS OFR
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.
