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Unnamed Shaft

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Uranium
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045792
MRDS ID M233621
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Shaft
Related records 10174460

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.97981, 38.9191 (WGS84)
Elevation 1942
Relative position ABOUT 1.5 AIRMILES S85W FROM PEAK OF MT. ZIGGURAT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jet Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012N 045E 07 ,PROJECTED FROM WEST NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Uranium Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.97981, 38.9191
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Northumberland District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • SINGLE VERTICAL SHAFT WITH HEADFRAME & CRIBBING - ABOUT 50 FT. DEEP IN ALLUVIUM.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, PEGGY, FIELD CHECK 19 OCT, 1981

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POSSIBLY AN OLD WELL AS IT IS SITUATED IN A DRAINAGE ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1982 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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

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