The Daisy Mine is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,308 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,308 Feet (1,313 Meters)
Commodity: Fluorine-Fluorite
Lat, Long: 36.86667, -116.68333
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Daisy Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Daisy Mine
Secondary: Crowell Mine
Secondary: Daisy Fluorspar Mine
Secondary: Beatty Fluorspar Mine
Secondary: Lige Harris-Enif Area
Secondary: Yellow Spar
Commodity
Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Uranium
Tertiary: Mercury
Tertiary: Clay
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Fluorine District
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: J. Irving Crowell, Jr.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1919
Discovery Year: 1918
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: L
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENTICULAR IRREGULAR MASSES, IRREGULAR VEINS, SMALL MASSES, DISSEMINATED GRAINS, PIPE-LIKE
Structure
Type: R
Description: Basin And Range
Type: L
Description: Bullfrog Hills Caldera. Northeast-Trending, Steep Dipping, Right Lateral Tear Faults; Gently Northwest Dipping Thrust Faults.
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cambrian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: GRADE RANGED BETWEEN 70 - 80% FLUORITE PROBABLY AVERAGING CLOSE TO 75% WITH SILICA LESS THAN 2% (CORNWALL & KLEINHAMPL 1964). GEEHAN (1946) STATES SOME ORE WAS SHIPPED DIRECTLY AT 85% FLUORITE WITH LIMESTONE AS CHIEF GANGUE MINERAL. MILL GRADE ORE RAN ABOUT 70% FLUORITE. PURPLE FLUORITE CONTAIN UP TO 0.02 % U3O8 (GARSIDE, 1973). METALLURGICAL TEST BY USB7 CONTAIN 77.5 % CAF2, 2.4 % IO2, 3.9 % CACO3, 2.9 % AL2O3, 3.4 % R2O3, 0.35 % FE, 3.6 % INSOL.
Materials
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Clay
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Dolomite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Iron
Comments
Comment (Commodity): FLUORITE IS PURPLE TO VERY LIGHT GRAY. FINELY GRANULAR. CLAY IS IN THE FORM OF MONTMORILLONITE, SERICITE, AND KAOLINITE.
Comment (Location): NW1/4 OF SECT. 23
Comment (Production): PRODUCTIVE PERIOD IS 1919 - 1920, 1922, 1927 - 1975.
Comment (Deposit): USBM IN 1945 DRILLED 12 DIAMOND-DRILL HOLES TOTALLING 3,661 FT.
Comment (Workings): DAISY MINE WORKINGS ARE A COMPLEX MAZE WITH 14 LEVELS AND SUBLEVELS IN AN AREA 270 M. LONG AND 100 M. WIDE. LARGEST SINGLE ORE SHOOT WIDTH ENCOUNTERED IS 24 M.
Comment (Geology): THE DOLOMITE IS WHITE, MEDIUM-CRYSTALLINE AND MEDIUM-DARK-GRAY FINELY CRYSTALLINE.
References
Reference (Deposit): CORNWALL, H. R. AND KLEINHAMPL, F. J., 1964, GEOLOGY OF BULLFROG QUADRANGLE AND ORE DEPOSITS RELATED TO BULLFROG HILLS CALDERA, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA AND INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: USGS PROF. PAPER 454-J.
Reference (Deposit): 1945 DIREXPL U.S. BU MINES - NO NEW ORE FOUND
Reference (Deposit): 1949 THURSTON, W. R.
Reference (Deposit): 1956 GEOLMAP CORNWALL, H. R. AND KLEINHAMPL, F. J.
Reference (Production): CORNWALL, H. R. AND KLEINHAMPL, F. J., 1964, GEOL. BULLFROG QUAD. AND ORE DEP.
Reference (Deposit): CORNWALL, H. R. AND KLEINHAMPL, F. J., 1961, GEOLOGY OF BARE MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS GEOLOGIC QUADRANGLE MAP GQ-157
Reference (Deposit): GEEHAN, R. W., 1946, EXPLORATION OF THE CROWELL FLUORSPAR MINE, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: U.S. BU MINES REPT INV. 3954, 9 P.
Reference (Deposit): 6) CORNWALL, H.R., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE CO.: NBMG BULL, 77, P. 35.
Reference (Deposit): 7) KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 61-62.
Reference (Deposit): 8) THURSTON, W.R., ET. AL., 1949, DAISY FLUORSPAR DEPOSIT: USGS STRAT. MIN. INV. PRELIM. REPT. 3-209.
Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L.J., 1973, RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCESIN NEVADA: NBMG, BULL. 81, P. 92.
Reference (Deposit): 5) PAPKE, K.G., 1979, FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 93, P.40-43.
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.
