Tungsten deposits in the Tem Piute District, Lincoln County, Nevada

Abstract

Tea Piute Range in the west-central part of Lincoln County, ffevada, approximately 85 mile* vest of Caliente, 100 Biles east of Tonopah, and 160 Biles north of Las Yogas. The district is reached by 40 Biles of desert road froB B. S. Highway 93 at Crystal, near Hiko. The deposits

Contact metasomatism and ore deposition, Tem Piute, Nevada

“…A hypothesized overthrust from the southwest may have been the cause of the steepening and local overturning of the beds in the northern part of the range (28). Anomalous stratigraphic relations also argue in favor of this overthrust.…”

“…A Bureau of Mines report (7) provides a terse summary of the geology and the mining and extraction of the ore, as well as a brief discussion of the exploration work done by the U.S. Bureau of Mines. A short but more detailed report on the geology of the tungsten deposits is by Wyant and Lemmon (28). Aspects of the mineralogy were discussed by Buseck (11).…”