Unnamed Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Barium-Barite, Arsenic
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050804
MRDS ID N000150
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Mine
Alternate or previous names Unnamed Shaft, NBMG Sample Site # 3671

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.39539, 38.56409 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Kinkaid(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
008N 032E 10 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicified Gouge And Iron-Staining

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.39539, 38.56409

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Comments on the workings information

  • A SHAFT. THE DUMP IS CONSIDERABLE AND MAY REPRESENT SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF WORKINGS.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: SOME PRODUCTION AS THERE IS A LOADING FACILITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UNNAMED MINE, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO.; QUADE, JACK, SAMPLE SITE #3671 VISIT 5/15/89; NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POOR ROADS TO THE NW OF KINKAID.
Deposit RECORD INFORMATION ALSO SUPPLIED BY NBMG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1989 Shawe, D.R.; Quade, J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-NOV-1991 Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.) U.S. Geological Survey

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.