Iron Mine Stockpile

The Iron Mine Stockpile is a iron mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,400 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: Iron Mine Stockpile  

State:  Nevada

County:  Churchill

Elevation: 4,400 Feet (1,341 Meters)

Commodity: Iron

Lat, Long: 39.9736, -118.16530

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Iron Mine Stockpile MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Iron Mine Stockpile
Secondary: Buena Vista Mine


Commodity

Primary: Iron


Location

State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Mineral Basin District


Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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: Fee Ownership
Type: Located Claim
Type: Patented


Workings

Type: Surface


Ownership

Owner Name: Art Wilson Co.
Company ID: 2600715
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1976

Owner Name: Southern Pacific Co.
Home Office: California
Info Year: 1975

Owner Name: Columbia Iron Mining Co. (U. S. Steel)
Home Office: Utah
Info Year: 1975
Years: 1975 -

Owner Name: Mineral Materials Co.
Info Year: 1974
Years: 1941 - 1960

Owner Name: John T. Reid
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1974
Years: 1898 - 1941


Production

Year: 1960
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 63%Fe Direct, 58.8 Conc 50620 01
Year: 1959
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 58.8 % Fe Product 274081 01
Year: 1958
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 59.0 % Fe Product 229518 01
Year: 1957
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 58.8 % Fe Product 22192 01
Year: 1956
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 58% Fe Product 96836 01
Year: 1955
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 57% Fe Product 13140 01
Year: 1954
Description: No Mine Product. Shipped 4,352mt, 57% Fe 01
Year: 1953
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 57 % Fe Product 6362 01
Year: 1952
Description: Crude Ore Mined/ 57.0 % Fe Product 237954 01


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1952
Discovery Year: 1898
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: Magnetite
Unknown: Sphene
Unknown: Scapolite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Hornblende
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Chlorite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Apatite


Comments

Comment (Deposit): GENERAL ORE BODY SIZE: MEDIUM

Comment (Location): GENERAL LOCATION: ABOUT 36 KM SW OF LOVELOCK

Comment (Reserve-Resource): MATRIX 1, COL. 1 QUANTITY AND GRADE SUPPLIED BY U.S. STEEL CORP. APRIL 10, 1981. RESERVE CLASSIFICATION WAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH GEOLOGICAL CIRCULAR 831. NO MINOR ELEMENT ASSAYS WERE SUPPLIED. DELETERIOUS MINOR ELEMENT QUANTITIES ARE LOW ENOUGH TO NOT PRESENT PROBLEMS IN MEETING PRESENT METALLURGICAL SPECIFICATIONS. LYMAN MOORE (1971) STATES THAT "DIRECT SHIPPING ORE PRODUCED FROM THIS PROPERTY HAS AVERAGED 58.0 PERCENT FE, 9.0 PERCENT SIO2, 0.50 PERCENT P AND 0.02 PERCENT S." REEVES AND KRAL (1955, P. 21) REPORT 0.31 PERCENT V2O5 IN THE BUENA VISTA MINE ORE. M1C2=R6+R7+R8 MATRIX 1 COLUMN 2 EQUALS THE SUM OF PUBLISHED RESERVE RE- CORDS R6, R7, AND R8. M1C3=R6+R7 MATRIX 1 COLUMN 3 EQUALS RESERVE RECORD 6 PLUS RESERVE RE- CORD 7. M1C4=R6 MATRIX 1 COLUMN 4 EQUALS PUBLISHED RECORD 6.


References

Reference (Deposit): WRIGHT, L. B. SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S GEOLOGISTS

Reference (Deposit): GEOL. BULL. 83, 1974, PP. 78-79.

Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND

Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R., AND R. C. SPEED. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL

Reference (Deposit): A, 1966, PP. 5-14.

Reference (Deposit): INDUSTRY IN NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. REP. 13, PT.

Reference (Deposit): AND GEOL. BULL. 65.)

Reference (Deposit): VOSKUIL, W. H. ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE IRON ORE

Reference (Deposit): JULY 23, 1964, 314 PP. (ALSO PUBLISHED AS NV BUREAU OF MINES

Reference (Deposit): MARKET STUDY. M.S. THESIS, UNIV. NV, RENO, NV, 1967, 116

Reference (Deposit): JENNINGS, O. R. ECONOMICS OF NEVADA IRON ORES: A

Reference (Deposit): BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. MAP 5, 1962, SCALE 1:1,000,000.

Reference (Deposit): HORTON, R. C. IRON ORE OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA. NV

Reference (Deposit): ORE-PART I. V. 175, NO. 11, 1974, PP. 83-162.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): IC 8511, 1971, 207 PP.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): IRON RESOURCES AND IRON ORE MARKETS. BUMINES

Reference (Reserve-Resource): NEVADA, 116 PP.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): MOORE, L. ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF CALIFORNIA-NEVADA

Reference (Deposit): 88TH CONGR., 2D SESS,, SENATE DOCUMENT 87,

Reference (Deposit): U.S. SENATE. MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF NEVADA.

Reference (Deposit): SURVEY. BUMINES IC 8574, 1973, 177 PP.

Reference (Deposit): RENO, H. T., AND F. E. BRANTLEY. IRON -- A MATERIALS

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULL. 53A, 1955, 32PP.

Reference (Deposit): BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL AND PERSHING COUNTIES,

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA. PART A, GEOLOGY AND IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF THE

Reference (Deposit): PP. 279-290.

Reference (Deposit): REEVES, R. G., AND V. E. KRAL. IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF

Reference (Deposit): BULL. SOC. ECON. GEOL., V. 59, NO. 2, 1964,

Reference (Deposit): VISTA IRON ORES, CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA. ECON. GEOL. AND

Reference (Deposit): RADTKE, A. S. GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF THE BUENA

Reference (Deposit): NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1992, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA

Reference (Deposit): MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1975, P. 1.

Reference (Deposit): NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1976, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA

Reference (Deposit): COUNTY, NEVADA. BUMINES RI 4094, 1947, 5 PP.

Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V. E. BUENA VISTA IRON DEPOSIT, CHURCHILL

Reference (Deposit): (LONDON), V. 138, MAR. 1979, PP. 61-73.

Reference (Deposit): JONES, G. K. IRON ORE PELLETIZATION. IND. MINER.

Reference (Deposit): PP.

Reference (Deposit): PP. 953-964.

Reference (Deposit): GEOL. AND BULL. SOC. ECON. GEOL., V. 67, NO. 7, 1972,

Reference (Deposit): OHLE, E. L. EVALUATION OF IRON ORE DEPOSITS. ECON.

Reference (Deposit): UNIV. CA, LOS ANGELES, CA, 1968, 84 PP.

Reference (Deposit): BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA. M.S. THESIS,

Reference (Deposit): NICKLE, N. L. GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE

Reference (Deposit): MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1991, P. 1.

Reference (Deposit): ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. NORTH AMERICAN IRON

Reference (Deposit): MAR. 22, 1980, PP. 10-13.

Reference (Deposit): STORY- PELLETIZING. SKILLINGS' MINE REV., V. 69, NO. 12,

Reference (Deposit): CLEVELAND, OH, 1980, 115 PP.

Reference (Deposit): CARLSON, G. N., AND R. A. BAUER. HIBBING TACONITE

Reference (Deposit): AMERICAN IRON ORE ASSOCIATION. IRON ORE 1979.

Reference (Deposit): MAR. 1960, PP. 26-31.

Reference (Deposit): FIND 132,000 TONS LOW GRADE IRON ORE. MIN. WORLD,


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.