The Scheelite Chief Mine is a mine located in White Pine county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,880 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,880 Feet (2,097 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 38.7919, -114.34500
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Scheelite Chief Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Scheelite Chief Mine
Secondary: Tungsten Metals Mine
Secondary: Silver Bell
Secondary: Silver Bell Mine
Commodity
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Shoshone
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
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Swansea Cons. Mining Co.
Home Office: Utah
Info Year: 1972
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1915
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
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: Scheelite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Calcite
Comments
Not available
References
Reference (Deposit): P. 3-4 (TEXT).
Reference (Deposit): U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MISC. FIELD STUDIES MAP MF-1343-B, 1983,
Reference (Deposit): NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 85, 1976, P. 76; PLATE 2.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 4648, 1950, 13 P.
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.
