Unknown Prospects

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Manganese
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037552
MRDS ID M035495
Record type Site
Current site name Unknown Prospects

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.08316, 38.14687 (WGS84)
Elevation 1902
Relative position 1.5 MI SE OF CANDELARIA MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Candelaria(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N 035E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • GROUP OF SHAFTS .1 MI. SW OF MT. DIABLO MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.08316, 38.14687

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Candelaria

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAGE, B. M., 1959 , GEOLOGY OF THE CANDELARIA MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 56

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOW PART OF OPEN PIT (LUCKY HILL/ MT. DIABLO) AT CANDELARIA MINE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1990 Marcus, Susan Marcus, Susan 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.