Boston-Ely Group

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, 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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10247228
MRDS ID M031292
MAS/MILS ID 0320330192
Record type Site
Current site name Boston-Ely Group
Alternate or previous names Matilda, Emma
Related records 10103579

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.03757, 39.26714 (WGS84)
Elevation 2231
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

Riepetown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Hamilton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

White(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 016 N 062 E 07 SESENW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.03757, 39.26714

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF PAPER 96, 1917, PP.130 -132.

  • Deposit

    IN W PART OF ELY MIN DIST, SHORT DISTANCE BEYOND DIVIDE BETW

  • Deposit

    ROBINSON CANYON AND WHITE RIVER AND ABT 9 MI FROM ELY

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MIN BULL 85, 1976, TABLE 16, FIG 3.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 30-MAR-88 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) 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.