Tip Top Mine

The Tip Top Mine is a tungsten mine located in Humboldt county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,270 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Tip Top Mine
Secondary: Sw Part of Granite Creek Mine Area

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Copper

Location

State: Nevada
County: Humboldt
District: Potosi District; Getchell District

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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

Owner Name: Getchell Mines, Inc.

Owner Name: Getchell Mines, Inc.

Production

Year: 1955
Time Period: 1954-1955
Material type: ORE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^Ave. 0.3% Wo3

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
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: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: W skarn

Orebody

Form: TABULAR, ALONG CONTACT

Form: TABULAR, ALONG CONTACT

Structure

Type: R
Description: Folding

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cambrian

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

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Pyroxene
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Location): S. SIDE OF GRANITE CREEK; SE 1/4 OF SE 1/4 OF SEC 30.

Comment (Geology): GRANODIORITE CONTACT STRIKES ROUGHLY WEST TO SW, AND DIPS 60 TO 70 S TO SE. LIMESTONE IS RECRYSTALLIZED TO MARBLE, CALC-SILICATE ROCK AND TACTITE ADJACENT TO THE GRANODIORITE: TACTITE BODIES ARE DISCONTINUOUS, TABULAR, AND UP TO 400 FT. LONG, AVERAGING 4 FT. THICK. TACTITE BODIES SEEM TO BE SITUATED AT PLACES WHERE THE IGNEOUS CONTACT CLOSELY PARALLELS BEDDING IN THE LIMESTONE.

Comment (Deposit): 3 OPEN PITS MINED FROM SUMMER 1954 TO SUMMER, 1955. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Comment (Production): 37,000 TONS ORE AT 0.3% WO3 FROM OPEN PITS, 1954-1955, AS WELL AS 3400 TONS OF 0.33 TO 0.58% WO3 ORE FROM UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS

Comment (Development): IN 1951, OPEN PIT MINING OF THE TIP TOP DEPOSIT BEGAN AND CONTINUED THROUGH 1956

Comment (Workings): 3 OPEN PITS

References

Reference (Production): HOTZ, P.E. & WILLDEN, R., 1964

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

Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEV; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59.

Reference (Deposit): HOTZ, P.E., AND WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE OSGOOD MOUNTAINS QUADRANGLE HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEV; U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 431.

Reference (Deposit): HOBBS, S.W., AND CLABOUGH, S.E., 1946, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE OSGOOD RANGE, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA UNIV. NEV. BULL, VOL. 40, NO. 5; GEOL. & MIN. SER. NO. 44.

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.