The Flying Cloud Mine is a tungsten mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,598 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,598 Feet (2,316 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 38.40889, -118.63417
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Flying Cloud Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Flying Cloud Mine
Secondary: Oddie and Giovanni
Secondary: Babcock
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Hawthorne 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: Senator Oddie And Siri Giovanni
Years: 1921 -
Production
Year: 1956
Time Period: 1951-1956
Material type: W
Description: Cp_Grade: ^Avg. 1.0 Percent Wo3
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Hornblende
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Diopside
Comments
Comment (Location): ON CREST OF RIDGRE SOUTH OF WILLOW CANYON
Comment (Deposit): TACTITE IS HARD AND COMPACT CONTAINING GARNET, SOME QUARTZ, HORNBLENDE, CALCITE, AND A LITTEL DIOPSIDE AND SCHEELITE. TACTITE WAS SHATTERED AFTER FORMED AND THE FRACTURES WERE HEALED BY VEINLETS OF NEW GARNET WITH MUCH QUARTZ AND SOME DIOPSIDE, AMPHIBOLE AND SCHEELITE. MOST OF SCHEELITE IN THESE VEINLETS.
Comment (Workings): SINGLE TUNNEL CUTS THROUGH DEPOSIT INTO THE GRANITE NEAR CENTER
Comment (Geology): THE MAIN ORE BODY CAPS THE RIDGE AND DIPS FROM CREST TOWARD WILLOW CREEK AT ANGLE OF ABOUT 30 DEGREES
Comment (Deposit): TUNGSTEN CLAIMS ON CREST OF HIGH RIDGE AND RATHER DIFFICULT OF ACCESS. DEPOSIT CONTAINS AN ESTIMATED 25,000 TONS OF TACTITE AVERAGING 0.5% WO3. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): HESS AND LARSEN, 1921, CONTACT-METAMORPHIC TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES; USGS BULL. 725-D
Reference (Deposit): 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.
