White Pine

The White Pine is a fluorine-fluorite mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,999 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: White Pine

Commodity

Primary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Tertiary: Silica
Tertiary: Magnesite

Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Unorganized District

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
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: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: Lester And Maynard Bisoni
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1981

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1976
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

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: Vesuvianite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Orthoclase
Unknown: Mica
Unknown: Fluorite
Unknown: Diopside
Unknown: Chlorite
Unknown: Calcite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): GENERAL LOCATION IS ABOUT 61 KM SW OF ELY. MINING METHOD WILL BE OPEN PIT. GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY IS LARGE.

References

Reference (Deposit): GEOL. BULL. 13, 1979, 77 PP.

Reference (Deposit): P. 323.

Reference (Deposit): 545. PAPKE, K. FLUORSPAR IN NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND

Reference (Deposit): REPLY. GEOL. SOC. AM. BULL. V. 81, NO. 2, 1970,

Reference (Deposit): EAST-CENTRAL NEVADA, AND SOME REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS -

Reference (Deposit): TERTIARY TECTONICS OF THE WHITE PINE-GRANT RANGE REGION,

Reference (Deposit): 456. MOORES, E. M., R. B. SCOTT, AND W. W. LUMSDEN.

Reference (Deposit): GEOL. SOC. AM. BULL. V. 79, NO. 12, 1968, P. 1703.

Reference (Deposit): EAST CENTRAL NEVADA, AND SOME REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS.

Reference (Deposit): TERTIARY TECTONICS OF THE WHITE PINE-GRANT RANGE REGION,

Reference (Deposit): 455. MOORES, E. M., R. B. SCOTT, AND W. W. LUMSDEN.

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.