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Blue Dick Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold
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  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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044580
MRDS ID M232084
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Dick Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55259, 37.45717 (WGS84)
Elevation 2390
Relative position 1.2 MILES E-SE OF PALMETTO MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Magruder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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
Mount Diablo 005S 040E 33 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55259, 37.45717
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 2.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lida District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Comments on the workings information

  • 1000 FEET OF SHALLOW WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT, W.A., 1909, THE LIDA MINING DISTRICT OF NEVADA: MINING WORLD, VOL. 31, NO. 2, P. 123-125

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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