Mine detail: Nightingale Mine

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Location: Pershing County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.01406, -119.22961
dep_id: 10042419
mrds_id: M060208
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Trace mineral: Gold, Bismuth, Molybdenum, Copper, Arsenic, Manganese, Lead
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Contact Metamorphic
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite
gangue: Calcite, Epidote, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm: IRREGULAR
model: 42: W skarn
conc_proc: Contact Metamorphism
Reporter: Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.), Royse, Sue E.
hrock_unit: Auld Lang Syne Group
hrock_type: Slate,Argillite,Limestone
arock_type: Diorite
disc_yr: 1917
discr: Alex Ranson & Associates
References:
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA, NBMG BULL. 89
  • Deposit:: SMITH, W.C. & GUILD, P.W., 1944, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE NIGHTINGALE DISTRICT, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA, USGS BULL. 936-B
  • Deposit:: HESS AND LARSEN, 1921, CONTACT-METAMORPHIC TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE U S., USGS BULL. 725-D, P. 2827
  • Deposit:: KERR, 1946, TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: GSA MEMOIR 15
  • Deposit:: VANDERBURG, 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY; USBM 1C 6902
  • Deposit:: SCHILLING, J.,1962, NBM REPORT 2, P. 38.
  • Deposit:: SCHILLING, J.,1979, NBMG OFR 79-3, MOLYBDENUM RESOURCES OF NEVADA, P. 168.
  • Deposit:: STAGER, H. K., IN PREPARATION, NBMG BULL ON TUNGSTENDEPOSITS OF NEVADA
  • Production:: STAGER, H. K. (IN PREPARATION)
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