Ore Drag Mine

The Ore Drag Mine is a antimony and tungsten mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,001 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Ore Drag Mine  

State:  Nevada

County:  Pershing

Elevation: 7,001 Feet (2,134 Meters)

Commodity: Antimony, Tungsten

Lat, Long: 40.56194, -117.43694

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Ore Drag Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Ore Drag Mine
Secondary: Tungsten No.14, Peacock Swackhammer
Secondary: Drag Ore


Commodity

Primary: Antimony
Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Silver


Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Iron Hat District


Land Status

Not available


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Type: Surface/Underground


Ownership

Owner Name: Mark Durfee
Home Office: Battle Mountain
Years: 1957 -


Production

Year: 1941
Time Period: 1935-1941


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1940
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S


Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains


Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: W skarn


Orebody

Form: TABULAR


Structure

Type: R
Description: Two N-Trending Faults

Type: L
Description: Fault Shear Zone


Alterations

Not available


Rocks

Not available


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Kermesite


Comments

Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD HAS BEEN MERGED WITH M060517, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.

Comment (Deposit): SCHEELITE ASSOCIATED WITH STIBNITE ORE IN SHEAR ZONE. STIBNITE OCCURS AS SMALL TO MEDIUM SIZED PODS AND STREAKS IN STRINGERS, VEINS AND MASSES OF QUARTZ. SHEAR ZONE ALSO CONTAINS SMALL AMOUNT OF SILVER.; MODEL NAME COULD ALSO BE: SIMPLE SB.

Comment (Location): SOUTH SIDE OF LEE CANYON NEAR CREST OF TOBIN RANGE. IT IS ABOUT 3 MILES VIA STEEP TRAIL FROM NEAREST ROAD, WHICH WAS WASHED OUT (TINGLEY, 1984, UNPUBLISHED NOTES).


References

Reference (Deposit): LEMMON, D.M., 1945, UNPUBLISHED DATA: NBMG UNPUBLISHED (TINGLEY) FILES.

Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H.K., AND TINGLEY, J.V., 1988, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 105, P. 164-165.

Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, E.F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 61, P. 200.

Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89 P.61-62

Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W.O., 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY NEVADA: USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 6902.

Reference (Deposit): DONAHOE, J. 1979, ORE DRAG MINE, UNPUBLISHED DRAFT CRIB RECORD, UPDATED IN 1984 BY J. TINGLEY, PERSHING COUNTY, IRON HAT DISTRICT: NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY) FILES.

Reference (Production): LAWRENCE (1963)


Nevada Gold

Gold Districts of Nevada

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.