Payday and Lobo Claims

The Payday and Lobo Claims is a tungsten mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,600 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

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

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Site Name

Primary: Payday and Lobo Claims
Secondary: United Tungsten Property
Secondary: United Tungsten

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten

Location

State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Toy 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: Hall And Hackett
Years: 1940 -

Owner Name: United Tungsten
Years: 1942 -

Production

Year: 1941
Material type: ?
Description: Ap_Grade: ^0.5-0.75% Wo3

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Contact Metamorphic
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1940
Year Last Production: 1942
Discovery Year: 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

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Scheelite

Comments

Comment (Location): ADJOINING THE ST. ANTHONY MINE ON THE WEST. 18 CLAIMS IN THE TWO GROUPS EXTEND FOR ABOUT 3 MILES ALONG CONTACT. UTM IS THE MIDPOINT BETWEEN UPPERMOST AND LOWERMOST WORKINGS. . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Comment (Development): MOST OF THE ORE MINED CAME FROM THE LARGEST KNOWN OREBODY WHICH WAS OPENED BY A 75-FOOT SHAFT, A 50-FOOT DRIFT, AND 2 STOPES TO THE SURFACE. THE ORE CONTAINED 0.5 TO 0.75% WO3. IN 1941 THE OWNERS BUILT A SMALL MILL AT TOY AND TREATED ABOUT 2000 TONS OF ORE. THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING THE MILL, WAS LEASED TO UNITED TUNGSTEN MINES LTD IN 1942 AND ABOUT 1000 TONS ORE WERE TREATED YIELDING ANOTHER 250-300 UNITS WO3.

Comment (Deposit): A LITTLE SCHEELITE IS PRESENT IN ALMOST EVERY OPENING THAT EXPOSES THE QUARTZ MONZONITE PLUTON CONTACT AND IN A FEW PLACES, SMALL OREBODIES CONTAINING A FEW TENS OR HUNDREDS OF TONS ARE FOUND.

Comment (Workings): 3 SHALLOW SHAFTS, DRIFTS, STOPES, SHORT ADITS AND ABOUT 60 PITS, CUTS, TRENCHES FOR ABOUT 3 MILES.

Comment (Deposit): THIS RECORD HAS BEEN MERGED WITH M242742, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.

References

Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H. K. AND TINGLEY, J. V., 1988, TUNTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 105.

Reference (Deposit): TINGLEY, J.V., 17 APR 85, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION OF DISTRICT.

Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE PARADISE-DENIO AND SONOMA-GERLACH RESOURCE AREAS, WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT, NEVADA: NBMG OFR 85-3.

Reference (Production): STAGER AND TINGLEY, 1988

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.