Mine detail: Water Canyon Mine

Previously called 'Monitor 1-26'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.94073, -116.80031

Resource(N)

Primary: Barium-Barite
Tertiary: Semiprecious Gemstone
Discovery year: 1979

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1980

Geology

References

MRDSW000021
MAS320230697
DEP10295599
Reference{Deposit:: STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE}{Deposit:: OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING 1978. NEVADA INDUSTRIAL}{Deposit:: COMMISSION, JAN., 1979, P. 45.}{Deposit:: POPKE, K. G., 1984, BARITE IN NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES}{Deposit:: AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 98, P. 111-112.}{Deposit:: UNPUBLISHED REPORT, AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT}{Deposit:: PART OF THE TOQUIMA RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS}{Deposit:: TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.}
ReporterSchmauch, Steven W.