The Lynch Creek Mine is a tungsten mine located in Lander county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Lynch Creek Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lynch Creek Mine
Secondary: Blue Horizon
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Beryllium
Location
State: Nevada
County: Lander
District: Birch Creek District
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
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
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 veins
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Mafic Intrusive Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Comments
Comment (Production): PRODUCED ABOUT $5000 THROUGH 1969.
Comment (Geology): TUNGSTEN-BEARING PEGMATITES IN METACEDIMENTARY ROCKS NERA THE GRANITIC CONTACT YIELD SMALL SCHEELITE TONNAGES. THE DEPOSIT ALSO CONTAINS SMALL POCKETS AND DISSEMINATIONS OF COLORLESS TO GREEN BERYL, BUT THERE HAS BEEN NO BERYL PRODUCTION.
Comment (Deposit): TUNGSTEN-BEARING PEGMATITES
Comment (Workings): TWO SHORT ADITS WITH RAISES AND STOPES, NUMEROUS BULLDOZER TRENCHES AND TEST PITS
Comment (Deposit): DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF TWO SHORT ADITS, WITH RAISES AND STOPES, NUMEROUS BULLDOZER, AND TEST PITS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): STEWART, J.H., MCKEE, E.H., AND STAGER, H.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 88
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.
