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Ben Hur Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Vanadium
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  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098586
MRDS ID M231516
Record type Site
Current site name Ben Hur Mine
Alternate or previous names Cedar Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.442, 38.05078 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
Relative position 1.8 MILES SE OF BELLEHELEN TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bellehelen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin 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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002N 049E 01 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.442, 38.05078
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Kawich Resurgent Caldron

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Control By Northwest - Trending Lineaments (?).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1927

Mining district

District name Bellehelen District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anderson, C. A.
    Home office Tonopah

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT WAS PRODUCED IN 1928.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 100 FT SHAFT WITH 150 FT OF DRIFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 50.

  • Deposit

    USBM, MILS, 1979

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.