The Iron Mine Stockpile is a iron mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,400 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,400 Feet (1,341 Meters)
Commodity: Iron
Lat, Long: 39.9736, -118.16530
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Iron Mine Stockpile MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Iron Mine Stockpile
Secondary: Buena Vista Mine
Commodity
Primary: Iron
Location
State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Mineral Basin District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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
Type: Fee Ownership
Type: Located Claim
Type: Patented
Workings
Type: Surface
Ownership
Owner Name: Art Wilson Co.
Company ID: 2600715
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1976
Owner Name: Southern Pacific Co.
Home Office: California
Info Year: 1975
Owner Name: Columbia Iron Mining Co. (U. S. Steel)
Home Office: Utah
Info Year: 1975
Years: 1975 -
Owner Name: Mineral Materials Co.
Info Year: 1974
Years: 1941 - 1960
Owner Name: John T. Reid
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1974
Years: 1898 - 1941
Production
Year: 1960
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 63%Fe Direct, 58.8 Conc 50620 01
Year: 1959
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 58.8 % Fe Product 274081 01
Year: 1958
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 59.0 % Fe Product 229518 01
Year: 1957
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 58.8 % Fe Product 22192 01
Year: 1956
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 58% Fe Product 96836 01
Year: 1955
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 57% Fe Product 13140 01
Year: 1954
Description: No Mine Product. Shipped 4,352mt, 57% Fe 01
Year: 1953
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 57 % Fe Product 6362 01
Year: 1952
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 57.0 % Fe Product 237954 01
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1952
Discovery Year: 1898
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Sphene
Unknown: Scapolite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Hornblende
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Chlorite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Apatite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): GENERAL ORE BODY SIZE: MEDIUM
Comment (Location): GENERAL LOCATION: ABOUT 36 KM SW OF LOVELOCK
Comment (Reserve-Resource): MATRIX 1, COL. 1 QUANTITY AND GRADE SUPPLIED BY U.S. STEEL CORP. APRIL 10, 1981. RESERVE CLASSIFICATION WAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH GEOLOGICAL CIRCULAR 831. NO MINOR ELEMENT ASSAYS WERE SUPPLIED. DELETERIOUS MINOR ELEMENT QUANTITIES ARE LOW ENOUGH TO NOT PRESENT PROBLEMS IN MEETING PRESENT METALLURGICAL SPECIFICATIONS. LYMAN MOORE (1971) STATES THAT "DIRECT SHIPPING ORE PRODUCED FROM THIS PROPERTY HAS AVERAGED 58.0 PERCENT FE, 9.0 PERCENT SIO2, 0.50 PERCENT P AND 0.02 PERCENT S." REEVES AND KRAL (1955, P. 21) REPORT 0.31 PERCENT V2O5 IN THE BUENA VISTA MINE ORE. M1C2=R6+R7+R8 MATRIX 1 COLUMN 2 EQUALS THE SUM OF PUBLISHED RESERVE RE- CORDS R6, R7, AND R8. M1C3=R6+R7 MATRIX 1 COLUMN 3 EQUALS RESERVE RECORD 6 PLUS RESERVE RE- CORD 7. M1C4=R6 MATRIX 1 COLUMN 4 EQUALS PUBLISHED RECORD 6.
References
Reference (Deposit): WRIGHT, L. B. SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S GEOLOGISTS
Reference (Deposit): GEOL. BULL. 83, 1974, PP. 78-79.
Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND
Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R., AND R. C. SPEED. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL
Reference (Deposit): A, 1966, PP. 5-14.
Reference (Deposit): INDUSTRY IN NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. REP. 13, PT.
Reference (Deposit): AND GEOL. BULL. 65.)
Reference (Deposit): VOSKUIL, W. H. ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE IRON ORE
Reference (Deposit): JULY 23, 1964, 314 PP. (ALSO PUBLISHED AS NV BUREAU OF MINES
Reference (Deposit): MARKET STUDY. M.S. THESIS, UNIV. NV, RENO, NV, 1967, 116
Reference (Deposit): JENNINGS, O. R. ECONOMICS OF NEVADA IRON ORES: A
Reference (Deposit): BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MAP 5, 1962, SCALE 1:1,000,000.
Reference (Deposit): HORTON, R. C. IRON ORE OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA. NV
Reference (Deposit): ORE-PART I. V. 175, NO. 11, 1974, PP. 83-162.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): IC 8511, 1971, 207 PP.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): IRON RESOURCES AND IRON ORE MARKETS. BUMINES
Reference (Reserve-Resource): NEVADA, 116 PP.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): MOORE, L. ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF CALIFORNIA-NEVADA
Reference (Deposit): 88TH CONGR., 2D SESS,, SENATE DOCUMENT 87,
Reference (Deposit): U.S. SENATE. MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF NEVADA.
Reference (Deposit): SURVEY. BUMINES IC 8574, 1973, 177 PP.
Reference (Deposit): RENO, H. T., AND F. E. BRANTLEY. IRON -- A MATERIALS
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULL. 53A, 1955, 32PP.
Reference (Deposit): BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL AND PERSHING COUNTIES,
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA. PART A, GEOLOGY AND IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF THE
Reference (Deposit): PP. 279-290.
Reference (Deposit): REEVES, R. G., AND V. E. KRAL. IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF
Reference (Deposit): BULL. SOC. ECON. GEOL., V. 59, NO. 2, 1964,
Reference (Deposit): VISTA IRON ORES, CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA. ECON. GEOL. AND
Reference (Deposit): RADTKE, A. S. GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE BUENA
Reference (Deposit): NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1992, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA
Reference (Deposit): MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1975, P. 1.
Reference (Deposit): NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1976, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA
Reference (Deposit): COUNTY, NEVADA. BUMINES RI 4094, 1947, 5 PP.
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V. E. BUENA VISTA IRON DEPOSIT, CHURCHILL
Reference (Deposit): (LONDON), V. 138, MAR. 1979, PP. 61-73.
Reference (Deposit): JONES, G. K. IRON ORE PELLETIZATION. IND. MINER.
Reference (Deposit): PP.
Reference (Deposit): PP. 953-964.
Reference (Deposit): GEOL. AND BULL. SOC. ECON. GEOL., V. 67, NO. 7, 1972,
Reference (Deposit): OHLE, E. L. EVALUATION OF IRON ORE DEPOSITS. ECON.
Reference (Deposit): UNIV. CA, LOS ANGELES, CA, 1968, 84 PP.
Reference (Deposit): BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA. M.S. THESIS,
Reference (Deposit): NICKLE, N. L. GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE
Reference (Deposit): MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1991, P. 1.
Reference (Deposit): ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. NORTH AMERICAN IRON
Reference (Deposit): MAR. 22, 1980, PP. 10-13.
Reference (Deposit): STORY- PELLETIZING. SKILLINGS' MINE REV., V. 69, NO. 12,
Reference (Deposit): CLEVELAND, OH, 1980, 115 PP.
Reference (Deposit): CARLSON, G. N., AND R. A. BAUER. HIBBING TACONITE
Reference (Deposit): AMERICAN IRON ORE ASSOCIATION. IRON ORE 1979.
Reference (Deposit): MAR. 1960, PP. 26-31.
Reference (Deposit): FIND 132,000 TONS LOW GRADE IRON ORE. MIN. WORLD,
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.
