Section 33 Adits and Shafts

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050820
MRDS ID N000195
Record type Site
Current site name Section 33 Adits and Shafts
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site #3555

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.20234, 38.60159 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Luning(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
Mount Diablo 9N 34E 33 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.20234, 38.60159

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • NARROW VEINS IN JOINTS OR SHEARS ARE HOSTED IN DEEPLY WEATHERED GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fitting

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ownership Unknown

Comments on the workings information

  • A SERIES OF SHALLOW SHAFTS AND ADITS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SECTION 33 ADITS AND SHAFTS, FITTING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO.; QUADE, JACK NBMG SAMPLE SITE # 3555 VISIT 54/9/89; NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NBMG SAMPLE #3555 WAS TAKEN FROM EXPOSED VEINS AND STOCKPILES OF QUARTZ BRECCIA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1989 Quade, Jack Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
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.