Seven Troughs District

Past Producer in Pershing 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001651
MRDS ID W002895
Record type District
Current site name Seven Troughs District
Alternate or previous names Mazuma Hills Mine, Kindergarten
Related records 10222355, 10310393

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.77379, 40.44069 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Seven Troughs(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Pershing

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.77379, 40.44069

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description FISSURE, BRECCIA ZONES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • PRINCIPAL VEINS FOLLOW BASALT DIKES IN VOLCANICS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1905
Year of first production 1907

Mining district

District name SEVEN TROUGHS DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

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.