White Bear

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, 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 10150374
MRDS ID M060459
MAS/MILS ID 0320270397
Record type Site
Current site name White Bear
Alternate or previous names Blackhole-Monroe Mines, Mayflower Mine
Related records 10042610

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.89987, 40.74019 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dun Glen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 033 N 036 E 11 NWNESE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ALSO IN SECTION 14.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -117.89987, 40.74019

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Sierra

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 89, 1977, P 89-90, PL 2A

  • Deposit

    USBM INFORM CIRC 6902, 1936, P 39

  • Deposit

    GAGE, H. L., LEAD-ZINC MINES OF NEV, BPA, (CONFID RPT),

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 414, 1909, P 50, 51

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-OCT-94 Linne, James M. 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.