Humboldt Shaft

Plant in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10149573
MAS/MILS ID 0320210123
Record type Site
Current site name Humboldt Shaft
Alternate or previous names May Be Part of the Aurora Partner-, Aurora Project, Ship Mine.

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.89066, 38.28572 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aurora(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005 N 028 E 17 SWSW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.89066, 38.28572

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Leach

Mining district

District name Aurora Division, Aranka Goldfields

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Minerex Resources (Us), Inc.
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1988
    Last year 1994

Comments on the workings information

  • PROCESS WATER: 900,000 GALLONS CIRCULATE IN A CLOSED SYSTEM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINE MAP REPOSITORY

  • Deposit

    RANDOL GOLD DIRECTORY, 1988.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS PORPERTY MAY BE PART OF AURORA PARTNERSHIP MINE OWNED & OPERATED BY ELECTRA MINING CONSOLIDATED, LTD. ELECTRA ACQUIRED ALL SHARES OF MINEREX RESOURCES (US), INC. AT THE END OF 1994.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-JUL-96 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.