Section 27/28 Shaft

Occurrence in Douglas county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050859
MRDS ID N000345
Record type Site
Current site name Section 27/28 Shaft
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site # 4421

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.29404, 39.04852 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lincoln Flat(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

West Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Douglas

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
14N 24E Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.29404, 39.04852

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Buckskin

Comments on the workings information

  • APPROX. 60 FT DEEP SHAFT WITH DRIFTING AT LOWER LEVEL AND DUMP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, NBMG SAMPLE SITE # 4421 VISIT, JULY 12, 1989

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NORTH TRENDING STRUCTURE.
Deposit NBMG SAMPLE # 4421 WAS COLLECTED FROM THE DUMP AND CONSISTED OF SILICIFIED GOUGE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-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.