Croesus Property

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046605
MRDS ID M241792
Record type Site
Current site name Croesus Property
Related records 10247498

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.79645, 36.99274 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position LOCATION APPROXIMATE FROM OLD PLAT MAPS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011S 046E 11,12 SE (11) OF SW (12) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR THE MAYFLOWER; 100 ACRES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.79645, 36.99274

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form STRINGERS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bullfrog (Pioneer) District

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1481.63M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT BEING SUNK TO 150-FT DEPTH IN 1906, SOON TO BE EQUIPPED WITH A 25 H.P. HOIST. SHAFT TO 170 FT IN 1907. SHAFT TO 300 FT IN SEPT 1907 AND PREPARATIONS MADE TO CROSSCUT TO THE MAYFLOWER VEIN

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG FILE 218: CLIPPINGS FROM ENG. & MIN. JOUR., 1906, 1907 NBMG MAP FILE 218

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-83 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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.