Yankee Girl Mine

The Yankee Girl Mine is a tungsten mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Yankee Girl Mine
Secondary: Yankee

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten

Location

State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Regent District

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

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Leo And Eugene Grutt (Early 1940'S)

Production

Year: 1940
Time Period: 1907-1940'S
Material type: ORE W
Description: Cp_Grade: ^2.0% Wo3

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Contact Metamorphic
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1907
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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: LENS

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Scheelite

Comments

Comment (Geology): PREDOMINATE ROCK IN AREA IS GRANODIORITE CONTAINING SMALL REMNANTS OF LIMESTONE AS ROOF PENDANTS. THESE INTRUDED BY ANDESITE AND BASALT DIKES.

Comment (Production): 210 TONS OF ORE CONTAININT 2.0% WO3 WERE MINED AND SHIPPED

Comment (Development): 3 UNPATENTED LODE CLAIMS KNOWN AS YANKEE, YANKEE GIRL, & YANKEE HILL.

Comment (Deposit): ADJACENT TO GRANITE CONTACT, LIMESTONE HAS BEEN ALTERED TO TACTITE IN ZONES 4 TO 5 FT. THICK. THE BEST ZONE HAS LENSE ABOUT 40 FEET LONG AND AVERAGING 4 FEET IN WIDTH; SCHEELITE SPRADICALLY DISTRIBUTED

Comment (Workings): 200-FOOT DRIFT, SHORT RAISES, AND WINZES

References

Reference (Production): JOHNSON AND BENSON, 1963, P. 99

Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D. C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 58

Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON & BENSON, 1963, TUNGSTEN RESOURCES OF NEVADA; USBM

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.