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Silver Moon Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
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  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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037506
MRDS ID M035430
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Moon Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver Moon 36

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.42012, 38.20049 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 1.5 MILES WEST OF TEELS MARSH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Huntoon Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004N 032E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MI. SO. OF DEFENDER MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • MATERIAL FROM PODS CAUSE A COUNT AS HIGH AS 0.7 MR/HR. (BACKGROUND 0.03 MR/HR.)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.42012, 38.20049
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PODS

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THIN LIMONITE-STAINED QTZ. VEINS IN GRANITIC ROCK; FRACTION OF AN INCH THICK AND UP TO 2 FEET LONG

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Silver Star

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner W. M. Patterson
    Home office Lakeport, Ca.

Comments on the workings information

  • SMALL OPEN CUTS AND ONE SHORT ADIT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D. L., 1961 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL CO., NEV., NEV. BUREAU OF MINES, BULL. 58

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1978 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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