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Snake Pit

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. 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 10047067
MRDS ID M242310
Record type Site
Current site name Snake Pit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.37313, 37.28828 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768

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)

Death Valley-Lower 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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 042E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.37313, 37.28828
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 78, PL. 2.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1982 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.

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.