1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Lucky Boy Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046977
MRDS ID M242212
Record type Site
Current site name Lucky Boy Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.34168, 39.08966 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Windy Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hamlin-Snake Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014N 068E 09,10 SE (09) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN LUCKY BOY CANYON, A TRIBUTARY TO WEAVER CREEK. UTM IS FOR ADIT SYMBOL ON WINDY PEAK, NEVADA (PROV. 1987) 7.5' TOPO. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = SACRAMENTO PASS (1959) 1:62500

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES FROM UNDERGROUND WORKINGS IN 1981 YIELDED 0.03, .04, AND 0.05% PB.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.34168, 39.08966
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 30-60 W
    Dip 35-85 SW
    Thickness 0.91M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lucky Boy Mining And Milling Co.
    First year 1922

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT AND 350 FT TUNNEL WITH CROSS CUTS, DRIFTS; ADITS, PROSPECT PITS, ARRASTRA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUB CO., RENO, NV.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV, P. 1244.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 56-83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Marcus, Susan U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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