Gunmetal

The Gunmetal is a tungsten mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,398 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: Gunmetal
Secondary: Desert Scheelite
Secondary: Lindsay
Secondary: Summerfield
Secondary: Garnet

Commodity

Primary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Molybdenum

Location

State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Shoshone

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: Patented
Type: Located Claim

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: Union Carbide Corp.,
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Danbury, CT
Info Year: 1981

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Milling Method: Gravity
Discovery Year: 1916
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S

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: Calcite
Unknown: Epidote
Unknown: Galena
Unknown: Garnet
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Scheelite
Unknown: Sphalerite
Unknown: Tetrahedrite
Unknown: Molybdenite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY IS LARGE.

Comment (Location): GENERAL LOCATION IS ABOUT 70 KM NW OF TONOPAH.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): MAT 1 COL 1 REPRESENTS THE TOTAL MEASURED RESOURCE AT THE GUNMETAL MINE THE RESOURCE INCLUDES 10 PERCENT DILUTION. MAT 1 COL 2 REPRESENTS THE TOTAL IN BITU MINE RESERVES AT THE GUNMETAL MINE.

References

Reference (Deposit): 223. GRABHER, D. E. UNION CARBIDE'S PILOT MOUNTAIN

Reference (Deposit): PROJECT: GEOLOGIC SETTING AND FIELD TRIP GUIDE, FIELD

Reference (Deposit): TRIP 10, SKARN DEPOSITS. PAPER IN EXPLORATION FOR ORE

Reference (Deposit): 598. ROSS, D. C. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL

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

Reference (Deposit): BULL. 58, 1961, 98 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 608. SCHILLING, J. H. AN INVENTORY OF MOLYBDENUM

Reference (Deposit): OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL.

Reference (Deposit): REP. 2, 1962, 48 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 733. U.S. SENATE. MINERAL AND WATER RESOURCES OF NEVADA.

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

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

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

Reference (Deposit): 740. VAN DENBURGH, A. S. RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING

Reference (Deposit): DISTRICTS IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA. BUMINES

Reference (Deposit): IC 6941, 1937, 79 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 774. WARNER, L. A., W. T. HOLSER, V. R. WILMARTH, AND E.

Reference (Deposit): MIN. J., V. 184,LITIES IN NEVADA. CH. IN OCCURRENCE OF

Reference (Deposit): NONPEGMATITE BERYLLIUM IN THE UNITED STATES. U.S. GEOL.

Reference (Deposit): SURV. PROF. PAPER 318, 1959, PP. 63-85.

Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA, FIELD TRIP

Reference (Deposit): GUIDEBOOK, ED. BY J. L. JOHNSON. SYMP. OF ASSOC. EXPL.

Reference (Deposit): GEOCHEM., RENO, NV, MAR. 25-28, 1984, PP. 5-24.

Reference (Deposit): 343. KERR, P. F. TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION IN THE UNITED

Reference (Deposit): STATES. GEOL. SOC. AM. MEMOIR 15, 1946, 241 PP.

Reference (Deposit): 444. MINING RECORD (DENVER). MERGER OF ELECTRA RESOURCES

Reference (Deposit): AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST. V. 94, NO. 2, 1982.

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.