President Mine

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead
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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047121
MRDS ID M242371
Record type Site
Current site name President Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.48952, 37.45078 (WGS84)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNKNWON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lida(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 040E 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AT LIDA, THE 6 CLAIMS COVER 120 ACRES, ADJOINING THE OLD DEATH VALLEY MINE ON WISCONSIN MOUNTAIN. UTM IS TO WORKINGS LOCATED ON CLAIM GROUP ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Analytical data

Result 56 SURFACE ASSAYS (1912) YIELDED $3.40 TO $305/TON

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.48952, 37.45078

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Dip 45
    Thickness 2.13M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lida District ; (Alida Valley District)

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW WORKINGS, 100-FT SHAFT WITH CROSSCUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SINCLAIR, J., 1912, NBMG FILE 95, ITEM 3, UNPUBLISHED REPORT

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 PARALLEL VEINS, 4, 6, AND 7 FT WIDE RESPECTIVELY

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.