Hart Silver Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead, Gold
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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046733
MRDS ID M241936
Record type Site
Current site name Hart Silver Mine
Related records 10125643

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.39035, 37.29856 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position EAST OF STATELINE MINE AND MILL, 600 M To Area Of Workings In Vicinity Of Mine

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gold Point SW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 041E 26 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Gold Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Bleaching, Oxidation, Clay?

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.39035, 37.29856

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 0.15M
    Length 91.44M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Hornsilver (Gold Point, Lime Point) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 304.8M

Comments on the workings information

  • BULLDOZER TRENCHES, A-FRAME HEADFRAME WITH SOME UNDERGROUND WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAKER, ARTHUR, III, 1966, UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON SCOUTING EXPEDITION IN HORNSILVER AREA; NBMG FILE 92, ITEM 6

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IRREGULAR ALTERED ZONES-IRON STAINED, SOFT, SOME YELLOW-GREEN ALTERATION, ACCOMPANIED BY SHEARING AND INDISTINCT QUARTZ VEINS-VUGGY AND IRON-STAINED. ALTERED AREAS ROUGHLY FOLLOW BEDDING

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-82 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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.