Old Ingalls Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium
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. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047117
MRDS ID M242367
Record type Site
Current site name Old Ingalls Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver Hills Nevada Property, Adjoining Jaeggers Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.53397, 37.31828 (WGS84)
Elevation 1487

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tule Canyon(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 040E 22 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 9 CLAIMS (+6 CLAIMS). UTMIS TO SHAFT IN MIDST OF WORKINGS FO THE MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.53397, 37.31828

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 3.66M
    Length 609.6M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tule Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Lessee/Operator
    Owner Siver Hills Nevada Mines Co.
    First year 1922

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 60.96M

Comments on the workings information

  • NUMEROUS SHAFTS, TUNNELS, TO 200 FT.

Comments on development

  • INGALLS MINE WAS BEING WORKED UNDER LEASE AND BOND IN 1923

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL XV, P. 1332.

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO., RENO, NV., P. 76-77.

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1978, MILS DATA

  • Production

    WEED, W.H., 1922, P. 1332

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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