The Red Ant Mine is a tungsten mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,801 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,801 Feet (1,768 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 39.14861, -118.40361
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Red Ant Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Red Ant Mine
Secondary: South Sand Springs
Secondary: V. Cye Cox
Secondary: Big Chief
Secondary: Mccoy
Secondary: Revely
Secondary: Red Bird
Secondary: East End
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Sand Springs 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
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
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: W skarn
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Copper
Ore: Scheelite
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Deposit): SCHEELITE OCCURS IN TACTITE ALONG A LIMESTONE GRANITE CONTACT WHICH TRENDS NW FROM THE SHAFT. THE CONTACT HAS BEEN TRACED NW ALONG STRIKE FOR ABOUT 300 FT. ORE WAS REPORTEDLY PRESENT AT BOTTOM OF 60-FT SHAFT. THE LIMESTONE IS STEEPLY TILTED NEAR THE GRANITE CONTACT AND LOCALLY INVADED BY GRANITE FINGERS THAT EXTEND WESTWARD FROM THE GRANITE MASS. SCHEELITE OCCURS DISSEMINATED AND AS SMALL CRYSTALS IN SILICATED ZONES ASSOCIATED WITH GARNET, EPIDOTE, QUARTZ, AND MINOR AMOUNTS OF COPPER CARBONATES.
Comment (Workings): 60-FT SHAFT
Comment (Location): AT HEAD OF A CANYON THAT BRANCHES TO THE EAST FROM FOURMILE CANYON ON WEST SLOPE OF SAND SPRINGS RANGE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION YEARS WERE 1941-47, 1954-56, 1961, AND 1971-1980
References
Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H.K., IN PREPARATION, NBMG BULL ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.
Reference (Deposit): NBMG BULL 83, 1974, PL. 1.
Reference (Production): STAGER, TINGLEY, IN PREP.
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.
