The Victory Tungsten Mine is a tungsten mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,200 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,200 Feet (1,585 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 38.97556, -117.91472
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Victory Tungsten Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Victory Tungsten Mine
Secondary: Victory Nos. 1-6 Claims
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Beryllium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Lodi District/Granite
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
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Gabbs Exploration Co.
Home Office: Salt Lake City, Ut
Years: 1973 -
Production
Year: 1956
Time Period: 1951-1956
Material type: W
Description: Cp_Grade: ^0.46-6.24 Percent Wo3
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1945
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: Paradise Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: W skarn
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Shear Zone (N 40 W, 50-70 Sw), Joints (N 50 W, 90)Dougan Thrust Fault; 2 E-W Faults
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The Granodiorite Is Feldspathized And Contact Metamorphosed.Silicification
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Sphene
Gangue: Andalusite
Comments
Comment (Location): UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP
Comment (Production): ABOUT 12 TONS HIGH-GRADE ORE ASSAYED 19% WO3
Comment (Deposit): THE ORE BODY HAS AN INVERTED TRIANGULAR SHAPE.
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 300 FT INCLINE SHAFT AND A 1,900 FT DRIFT ADIT.
Comment (Development): PURCHASED IN 1949 BY MR. DOUGAN & ASSOCS. UNDER WHOSE AUSPICES THE GABBS EXPLORATION CO. BEGAN MINING AND MILLING ABOUT APRIL,1951. A 100-TON MILL ON THE PROPERTY WAS TREATING 80 TPD BY EARLY 1952.
Comment (Geology): THE ORE BODY IS ENCLOSED BY AND GRADATIONAL INTO A FELDSPATHIZED ZONE.THE SCHEELITE IS ERRATICALLY DISTRIBUTED, ASSOCIATED WITH QUARTZ.
References
Reference (Deposit): PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 93, P. 71.
Reference (Deposit): HUMPHREY, F.L. AND WYATT, M., 1958, SCHEELITE IN FELDSPATHIZED GRANODIORITE AT THE VICTORY MINE: ECON. GEOL., V. 53, P. 38-64.
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 97-98.
Reference (Deposit): VITALIANO, C.J., ERICKSON, C.J., AND CALLAGHAN, E., 1952, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE VICTORY TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT: USGS OPEN-FILE MAP.
Reference (Production): NBM BULL., STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP JAN 1984)
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.
