Franz Hammel Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Iron, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10125711
MAS/MILS ID 0320230179
Record type Site
Current site name Franz Hammel Mine
Alternate or previous names Hammel, Guy Puh Property

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -116.7898, 37.54135 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Civet Cat Cave(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cactus Flat(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005 S 046 E 02 NE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -116.7898, 37.54135

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Wellington

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 50, 1951, P. 211-212.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-FEB-94 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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