Eldorado District

Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Zinc, Silver, Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  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 60001652
MRDS ID W002896
Record type District
Current site name Eldorado District
Alternate or previous names Colorado District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.79942, 35.7056 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Nelson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Boulder City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Havasu-Mohave Lakes(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Zinc Critical Primary
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) SILICIFICATION

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.79942, 35.7056

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description SHATTERED QTZ MONZONITE; FISSURES IN OLDER ROCK
Type of structure Regional
Structure description N-S BELT OF PRE-CAMBRIAN SCHIST & GNEISSES

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1857
Year of first production 1861

Mining district

District name ELDORADO DISTRICT
District name COLORADO 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.