1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Grand Junction Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Tungsten
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10246228
MRDS ID D001291
MAS/MILS ID 0320230016
Record type Site
Current site name Grand Junction Mine
Alternate or previous names Grand Junction Group, Martin, Beatty Mine, Bonanza Claims

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -116.65558, 36.80937 (WGS84)
Elevation 1256
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

Carrara Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 013 S 048 E 18 E2NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • DIRECTIONS TO THE MINE, AS SUPPLIED BY A BUREAU OF MINES EXAMINER (1954) ARE AS FOLLOWS: "TO REACH THE PROPERTY FROM BEATTY, HIGHWAY 95 IS FOLLOWED SOUTH 10 MILES TO THE TUNGSTEN MINE TURNOFF. FROM THIS POINT, A POOR DESERT ROAD IS FOLLOWED EAST THREE MILES TO THE TUNGSTEN SHOWING WHICH LIES NEAR THE HEAD OF A WESTWARD TRENDING SMALL CANYON." THIS WOULD PLACE THE MINE IN UNSURVEYED SEC. 18, T. 13 S., R. 48 E., WHERE THIS RECORD IS PLOTTED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -116.65558, 36.80937
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1929
Year of first production 1940

Mining district

District name Bare Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. B. Cothern
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1954

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 50, 1951, P. 36.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 77, 1972, P. 64-65.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 105, 1988, P. 135.

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.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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