Mountain View Group

Past Producer in Lincoln 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. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037374
MRDS ID M032074
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain View Group
Alternate or previous names Charley Ross Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.0561, 37.90719 (WGS84)
Relative position NEAR UTAH-NEV BORDER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deer Lodge Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
01N 71E 32 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1972 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Sylvanite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Latite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.0561, 37.90719

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN CONTAINS MILLING ORE WITH VERY HIGH GRADE TELLURIDE-RICH STREAKS. CHARLY ROSS CLAIM ON A BODY OF TALC ORE 40 FEET WIDE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Gold Springs

Comments on the production information

  • STREAKS ASSAY AS HIGH AS $3000/TON, SHIPMENTS RETURN UP TO $2900 (1908)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 53.34M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANTZ CM & PAMPEYAN EH, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN CO., NEV BUR MINES BULL 73

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1980 Harner, Joy L. (Roberts, Ralph J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.