USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · White Pine County
Big Wash Claims
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- White Pine
- Mining district
- Lexington District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Big Wash, Taylor, Chapman, Taylor-Chapman
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Quartz-Filled Fractures Striking Ne To E With Steep Dips N Commodity: Assays in 1981 showed minor amounts of pb, ag. Deposit: Scheelite occurs As scattered crystals 0.25 - 1.0 inch in quartz seams and in limestone.
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Galena
- Granite
- Hematite
- Limestone
View all 11 reported minerals
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- commodity:Tungsten
- Galena
- Granite
- Hematite
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Scheelite
- Specularite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 438633
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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