Indian Spring Copper Mining Co.

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10044582
MRDS ID M232086
Record type Site
Current site name Indian Spring Copper Mining Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.62814, 37.41939 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position ON MT. MAGRUDER, To Within 3 Miles

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sylvania Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

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

Goldfield(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 039E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF 10 CLAIMS. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Secondary
Silver Secondary

Analytical data

Result THE ORE CONTAIN UP TO 27% CU, WITH SOME GOLD AND SILVER.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.62814, 37.41939

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tule Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 80 FT SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT, W.A., 1909, THE LIDA MINING DISTRICT OF NEVADA: MINING WORLD, VOL. 31, NO. 2, P. 123-125

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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