Gold King

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Antimony, Copper, Gold, Silver, Tellurium
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 10247710
MRDS ID M031218
MAS/MILS ID 0320330188
Record type Site
Current site name Gold King
Alternate or previous names Munter

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -115.57119, 39.94052 (WGS84)
Elevation 2353

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Big Bald Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Newark Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Smoky-Newark Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 024 N 057 E 20 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Primary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Tellurium Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -115.57119, 39.94052

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MIN BULL 85, 1976, PL.2.

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MIN BULL 61, 1963, P.227, PL.1.

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL 648, 1916, PP.159-160.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1988 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.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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