Mine detail: Valley View Mine

Previously called 'Saunders Property & Toby ClaimMountain ViewHarol
* Club'

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Location

Lat / long:

41.151, -117.26124

Resource(M)

Primary:	Tungsten
Tertiary:	Molybdenum, Copper, Silver, Iron
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Copper, Scheelite
Gangue:	Calcite, Garnet, Pyroxene, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR, IRREGULAR
Other material:	Pyrite

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Contact Metamorphic
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1943

Geology

Host rock:	Preble Formation;Preble Formation
Host type:	Hornfels,Limestone
Associated rock:	Osgood Mtns. Stock
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Getchell Fault, Faults Trending Ssw, Dipping Steeply East Cut And May Offset Tactite Bodies.
Alteration processes:	Nontronite From Alteration Of Tactite In Shear Zone

References

MRDS	M232759
DEP	10045097
Reference	{Deposit:: WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT CO., NEV.; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59.}{Deposit:: HOTZ, P.E., AND WILLDEN, 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE OSGOOD MOUNTAINS QUADRANGLE HUMBOLDT CO., NEV; U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 431.}{Deposit:: HOBBS, S.W., AND CLABAUGH, S.E., 1946, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE OSGOOD RANGE, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA UNIV. NEV. BULL. VOL. 40, NO. 5; GEOL & MIN. SERIES NO. 44.}{Deposit:: STAGER, H. K., IN PREPARATION, NBMG BULL ON TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.}{Deposit:: NBMG DISTRICT FILE 136, ITEM 22, 1963, USBM DATA.}{Deposit:: SCHILLING, JOHN, 1979, NBMG OFR 79-3, MOLYBDENUM RESOURCES OF NEVADA.}{Deposit:: NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.}{Production:: HOTZ, P.E. & WILLDEN, R., 1964; STAGER, IN PREPARATION.}
Reporter	La Pointe, D.D., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)