Section 27 Prospects

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037597
MRDS ID M035592
Record type Site
Current site name Section 27 Prospects
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3544

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.07455, 38.51853 (WGS84)
Elevation 2097
Relative position APPROX. 6 MI. EAST OF LUNING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sunrise Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(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)

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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008N 035E 27 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • GROUP OF PROSPECTS .1 MI. SE OF SUNRISE MINE AND POSSIBLY SATELLITE TO, UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.07455, 38.51853

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Vein Has Minor Copper Oxides

Comments on the geologic information

  • SAMPLE # 3544 WAS SELECTED FROM THE DUMPS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Santa Fe

Comments on the workings information

  • TIMBERED SHAFT WITH HAND CAPSTAN AND SMALL ADIT. ( 75 FOOT SHAFT)

Comments on development

  • CAPSTAN RIGGING STILL IN PLACE ABOVE THE SHAFT ; ECON.COM: PRODUCTION UNKNOWN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, SANTE FE MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-8-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED DISTRICT MINING FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SHEAR IN LIMESTONE WITH QUARTZ VEINING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) 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.