Belmont Big Four Mining Co.

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Molybdenum, Silver, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045685
MRDS ID M233476
Record type Site
Current site name Belmont Big Four Mining Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.00091, 38.59993 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 2000(meters)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN, Within About 1 Mile, Within About 1 Mile

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manhattan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Comments on the location information

  • 7-8 MILES WEST OF BELMONT ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Molybdenum Primary
Silver Secondary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Molybdenite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE 2 % MOS2 PLUS SILVER AND COPPER VALUES

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.00091, 38.59993

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N-S
    Dip 30
    Width 6.1M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Belmont District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 167.64M

Comments on the workings information

  • 150-FT AND 400-FT TUNNELS (1922)

Comments on development

  • INCORPORATED IN 1916. 16 CLAIMS. MINE OPERATIONS WERE RESUMED IN 1919 UNDER 5-YEAR LEASE TO FRANK FAGAN, CONTINUED INTO 1920. 320 ACRES, 100-TON MILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN 1918

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., (1922) MINES HANDBOOK, VOL. XV.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., (1918) MINES HANDBOOK VOL. XIII, P 1155-1156.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FISSURE VEIN OF QUARTZ WITH DISSEMINATED MOLYBDENITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-81 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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.