Golden Chariot Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper
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. 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 10044534
MRDS ID M231986
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Chariot Group

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.78312, 37.53689 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position JUST SE OF THE FRANZ HAMMEL MINE., Estimated To Within 0.5 Miles., Estimated To Within 0.5 Miles.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Civet Cat Cave(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cactus Flat(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005S 046E 01 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.78312, 37.53689

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BUNCHY

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Wellington District

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fuetch, Carl
    Home office Reno, Nv
    First year 1912

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW TONS OF ORE AT $200/TON WERE SHIPPED IN 1908.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 300 FEET SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 212

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-81 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) 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.