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Brookside #2 Placer

Occurrence in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Silver
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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. 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. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045319
MRDS ID M233021
Record type Site
Current site name Brookside #2 Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.094, 38.15549 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position Chose Columbus Mine

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Candelaria(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 035E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AT THE OLD TOWNSITE OF COLUMBUS, NEVADA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.094, 38.15549
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • TAILINGS FROM MINES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Candelaria District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GRAHAM, W.H., BROOKSIDE #2: NBMG FILE

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VISIBLE ARE NOT LESS THAN 5 ACRES OF TAILINGS WITH A DEPTH OF NOT LESS THAN 18 INCHES. A FAIR ESTIMATE RUNS FROM 1500 TO 2000 TONS
Deposit 160 ACRES CONTAINING TAILINGS. AN ESTIMATE OF 60 CENTS PER TON GIVES A VALUATION OF ABOUT $1,000. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-81 Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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