Douglas Group of Veins

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Geologic structures
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000936
MRDS ID M035392
Record type District
Current site name Douglas Group of Veins
Alternate or previous names Gold Range District/Silver Star District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.20095, 38.33323 (WGS84)
Relative position LARGE CONCENTRATION OF MINES, PROSPECTS, CLAIMS AT THE HEAD OF DOUGLAS CANYON NORTH FLANK THUNDER MTN. LATITUDE/LONGITUDE WERE ESTIMATED USING DATA FROM USGS BULL-594 AND EXCELSIOR MTNS 100K.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Camp Douglas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.20095, 38.33323

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description FISSURES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1893
Discoverer T. Pepper, E. Grassi, D. J. Robb

Mining district

District name GOLD RANGE DISTRICT
District name SILVER STAR DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HILL, J. M., 1915 , SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NE CALIF. AND NW NEV., USGS BULL. 594

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W. O., 1937 ,RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN MINERAL CO., NEV., USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D. L., 1961 ,GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL 58

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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