Hoosac Mine

Past Producer in Eureka county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Silver, Uranium
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 10295584
MAS/MILS ID 0320110146
Record type Site
Current site name Hoosac Mine
Alternate or previous names Lucky Boy

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.964, 39.43663 (WGS84)
Elevation 2463
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eureka(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Pinto Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Hamilton(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 Eureka

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 018 N 053 E 13 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Primary
Uranium Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.964, 39.43663

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 BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    17,292 TONS VALUED AT $158,616,FROM 1872-82;OCCURENCES MAY B

  • Deposit

    SECS 13 AND 14

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 64,1967,TB14

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 81,1973,PP55-56

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF PAPER 406,1962,PLATE 1

  • Deposit

    USGS GEOL MAP 1-793,1974

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-NOV-83 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.