St. Lawrence Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Antimony, Copper, Lead, Silver, Tungsten, Zinc
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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10174262
MRDS ID M031264
MAS/MILS ID 0320330047
Record type Site
Current site name St. Lawrence Mine
Alternate or previous names Mt. Washington Mine, St Lawrence Mine, Washington Mine
Related records 10037299

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -114.31024, 38.89635 (WGS84)
Elevation 3109
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wheeler Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Garrison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012 N 068 E 14 SW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Lead Primary
Silver Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Dolomite, limestone, and shale

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1881

Mining district

District name Mount Washington District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 85, 1976, P. 58; PLATE 1.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 56-83, 1983, TABLE 1,

  • Deposit

    P. 22; PLATE 1.

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 105, 1988, P. 221.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-APR-94 Kluender 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.