USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Sorenson Fluorite Group
Unconfirmed Tungsten Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Sylvania (Green Mountain) District
- Development status
- Occurrence
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Tungsten
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Army Group, Sorenson Tungsten Group, Amry Prospect, Aurora?
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Alteration: Silicification Of Limestone. Commodity: Light greenish-gray fine-grained fluorite Deposit: Some fluorite occurs in tactite along a contact of granitic rocks with limestone. Fluorite occurs in a fracture zone between completely garnetized …
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_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: Occurrence
Operators / organizations
- R. S. Sorenson Of Tonopah · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Quartz
- Fluorite
- Scheelite
- Andesite
- Calcite
View all 17 reported minerals
- Calcite
- Epidote
- Garnet
- Quartz
- Fluorite
- Scheelite
- Andesite
- Calcite
- commodity:Fluorite (Fluorspar)
- commodity:Tungsten
- Epidote
- Fluorite
- Garnet Group
- Granite
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Scheelite
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: 429263
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (11)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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