Section 28 Shaft

Occurrence in Carson City county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  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 10050831
MRDS ID N000314
Record type Site
Current site name Section 28 Shaft
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3663

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.63628, 39.14212 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Carson City(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

New Empire(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Carson(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Carson City

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
15N 21E 28 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ROADS TO THE AREA ARE TO THE EAST OF BRUNSWICK CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.63628, 39.14212

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Locally There Are More Prospects Than Are Shown On The Maps And Most Of Them Are In Granite And Exploring Veins

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.91M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE VEIN LIKE MANY OTHERS IN THE AREA HAS COPPER MINERALIZATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Delaware

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECTS AND SHALLOW CAVED SHAFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS, DELAWARE MINING DISTRICT,CARSON CITY COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 5 -12-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN IN GRANITE ALMOST VERTICAL
Deposit MUCH OF THE INTEREST APPEARS TO BE THE RESULT OF THE BIDWELL MINE TO THE EAST, WHICH IS IN A SIMILAR ENVIRONMENT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1989 Quade, Jack (Doebrich, Jeff) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-AUG-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) 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.