Four Aces Claims

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Production statistics
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10014361
MRDS ID D011101
Record type Site
Current site name Four Aces Claims
Alternate or previous names Sylvania Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.73425, 37.39995 (WGS84)
Elevation 2195

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sylvania Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
006S 038E 22,23 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary
Molybdenum Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Powellite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.73425, 37.39995

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sylvania

Production statistics

  • Year 1956
    Period 1943-1956
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Range From A Trace-0.8 Percent Wo3
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Minor Wo3 Tungsten Tungsten 1wt-pct

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBM BULL, STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP JAN. 1984)

  • Production

    NBM BULL, STAGER, H.K. (IN PREP JAN 1984)

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1984 Bishop, Blaskowski, Michael J. (Elliott, James E.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.