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Hornsilver May Co. Shaft

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047066
MRDS ID M242308
Record type Site
Current site name Hornsilver May Co. Shaft
Alternate or previous names May, May Fraction, Claims
Related records 10173907

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.37397, 37.34578 (WGS84)
Elevation 1722

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point(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 007S;007S 41E;041E ;12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 2 CLAIMS, 27 ACRES. UTM IS TO ONE CENTRAL SHAFT OF SEVERAL ON THE PROPERTY ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE AT SURFACE ASSAYS $4.28 IN AU AND AG

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.37397, 37.34578
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.83M
    Length 304.8M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1921

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Hornsilver May Co.
    First year 1922

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHAFTS, 50 AND 70 FT DEEP

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE IN EARLY 1920'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV., P. 1225.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 2 WELL-DEFINED, PERSISTENT VEINS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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