USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Lincoln County
Emerson Mine
Unconfirmed Tungsten Underground
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln
- Mining district
- Tem Piute
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Tempiute, Wah Chang Tungsten Mine, Tem Piute, Lincoln, North Tempiute, South Thumb
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Deposit: General location: about 99 km west of caliente. Domain: private and blm administered. General size of ore body: large mining method: shrinkage stoping,open pit mill: on-site,inactive;milling method,scheelite floation product: wo3 concentrate, …
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- 14 adit symbols
View individual source records (3)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Underground · work_type
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- Union Carbide Corp., Mining And Metals Division · Historical operator · 1984
- North Tempiute Mining And Development · Source-reported owner · 1981
- Teledyne Inc. · Source-reported owner · 1981
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Bismuth
- commodity:Tungsten
- Fluorite
- Magnetite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Native Bismuth
- Pyrite
View all 13 reported minerals
- Bismuth
- commodity:Tungsten
- Fluorite
- Magnetite
- Molybdenite
- Muscovite
- Native Bismuth
- Pyrite
- Pyrrhotite
- Scapolite
- Scheelite
- Sphalerite
- Tremolite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (2)
- mapped adit symbols (14)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 430844
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (12)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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