Culverwell

Occurrence in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodity Manganese
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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042558
MRDS ID M060385
Record type Site
Current site name Culverwell
Related records 10222779

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.74584, 37.47719 (WGS84)
Relative position 19 MILES NE OF CORP

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Slidy Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
05S 65E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AREA UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Braunite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE REPORTED TO CONTAIN: 28% MN, 6% FE, 23% SIO2 AND 26% INSOLUBLE RESIDUE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.74584, 37.47719

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MN MINERALS IN INTERSTICES OF BRECCIATED GANGUE CONTAINING TWO DISTINCT TYPES OF COMPLEX IRON SILICATES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Vigo District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Unknown
    Overall depth 3.05M

Comments on the workings information

  • 10 FOOT SHAFT ENTIRELY IN MANGANESE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TSCHANTZ, CM, & PAMPEYAN EH, 1970, GEOLOGY & 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
Updater 01-DEC-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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.