Mine detail: Jay Bird Mine

Location:	Churchill County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long:	39.99156, -119.201
dep_id:	10047399
mrds_id:	M242692
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Tungsten
Trace mineral:	Molybdenum, Manganese
Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Contact Metasomatic
Production size:	Small ammount of material produced
Development status:	Past Producer
ore:	Molybdenite, Scheelite
gangue:	Garnet, Pyrite, Quartz
orebody_fm:	TABULAR TO IRREGULAR
work_type:	Surface/Underground
model:	42: W skarn
conc_proc:	Contact Metamorphism
ore_ctrl:	Igneous Contact And Shear Zone
Reporter:	La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.)
hrock_unit:	Auld Lang Syne
hrock_type:	Limestone
arock_type:	Diorite
Structure:	Shear Zone
Year first produced:	1938
yr_lst_prd:	1955
References:	Deposit:: SMITH, W.C. AND GUILD, P.W., 1942, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE NIGHTINGALE DISTRICT, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL 936-B, P. 53-54. Deposit:: QUADE, J., 1985, FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS: NBMG UNPUBLISHED (TINGLEY) FILE. Deposit:: BONHAM, H.F. JR. & PAPKE, K.L., 1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WASHOE AND STOREY COUNTIES NEVADA: NBMG BULL 70, P. 72. Deposit:: STAFF, 1985, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE PARADISE-DENIO AND SONOMA-GERLACH RESOURCE AREAS, WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT, NEVADA: NBMG OFR 85-3. Deposit:: STAGER, H.K. & TINGLEY, J.V., 1988, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 105, P. 201. Production:: SMITH & GUILD (1942); STAGER & TINGLEY (1988) Reserve-Resource:: BONMAN (1969), P. 72.