The Leonard Mine is a tungsten mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,102 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,102 Feet (1,555 Meters)
Commodity: Tungsten
Lat, Long: 39.0167, -118.32500
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Leonard Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Leonard Mine
Secondary: Nevada Scheelite Mine & Mill
Commodity
Primary: Tungsten
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Regent-Rawhide
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
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Natural Resources Development Ltd.(Sub. Nrd Mining Ltd.)
Company ID: 2600614
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1982
Owner Name: Kennametal, Inc. (Nevada Division)
Info Year: 1975
Production
Year: 1974
Time Period: 1937-1974
Description: Conc. Prod. 1937-1974 About 3,800 Mt, Ore Mined About 360,000 Mt, Units Prod. 1937-1974 About 271,000 Mt Approximate Grade 1.1 Percent W-Trioxide
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Timbered Stopes - Overhand Square-Set
Milling Method: Gravity
Year First Production: 1937
Discovery Year: 1930
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: Molybdenite
Unknown: Pyrite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Scheelite
Unknown: Wollastonite
Unknown: Chalcopyrite
Unknown: Diopside
Unknown: Epidote
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Limonite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Magnetite
Comments
Comment (Location): GENERAL LOCATION: ABOUT 58 KM NE OF HAWTHORNE. GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY: LARGE.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): M1=N/CUM (MATRIX 1 IS NON-CUMULATIVE) QUANTITIES IN MATRIX 1 ARE ON THE 200-300 LEVELS AND 500-550 LEVELS. ADDITIONAL UNKNOWN RESOURCES MAY EXIST BETWEEN AND BELOW THESE LEVELS. ABOUT 50,000 MT DEVELOPED AS OF JAN. 1981. NO PUBLISHED RESERVES AVAILABLE.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESOURCES AS OF 1/83.
References
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA, 1959-62, BUMINES IC 8158, 1963, 19
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G. H., JR. BERYLLIUM INVESTIGATIONS IN
Reference (Deposit): BUMINES RI 4681, 1950, 13 PP.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA SCHEELITE, INC., DEPOSIT, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA.
Reference (Deposit): NV, 1982, 94 PP.
Reference (Deposit): GEEHAN, R. W., AND R. R. TRENGOVE. INVESTIGATION OF
Reference (Deposit): MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA. M.S. THESIS, UNIV. NV, RENO,
Reference (Deposit): TAYLOR, J. K. GEOLOGY OF THE NEVADA SCHEELITE MINE,
Reference (Deposit): OF MINING AND MINERAL PROCESSORS, 1975.
Reference (Deposit): ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL. INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY
Reference (Deposit): BULL. 58, 1961, 98 PP.
Reference (Deposit): COUNTY, NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL.
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D. C. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL
Reference (Deposit): SURV. PROF. PAPER 318, 1959, PP. 63-85.
Reference (Deposit): NONPEGMATITE BERYLLIUM IN THE UNITED STATES. U.S. GEOL.
Reference (Deposit): N. CAMERON. LOCALITIES IN NEVADA. CH. IN OCCURRENCE OF
Reference (Deposit): WARNER, L. A., W. T. HOLSER, V. R. WILMARTH, AND E.
Reference (Deposit): IC 6941, 1937, 79 PP.
Reference (Deposit): DISTRICTS IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA. BUMINES
Reference (Deposit): VAN DENBURGH, A. S. RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING
Reference (Deposit): PP.
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.
