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Cave Valley Mine

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Lead, Silver, Uranium
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  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 10295245
MRDS ID D000022
MAS/MILS ID 0320170183
Record type Site
Current site name Cave Valley Mine
Alternate or previous names Cave Valley

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -114.79645, 38.64325 (WGS84)
Elevation 1987
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Parker Station(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Garrison(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lund(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009 N 064 E 16 NWNE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -114.79645, 38.64325
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Patterson District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 10, 1931, P. 10-13.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 73, 1970, TABLE 31, P. 171

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 81, 1973, P. 71.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 29-86, 1986, P. 9, 23,

  • Deposit

    47, 54.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 19-JAN-1994 Chatman, Mark L. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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