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Urania Mine

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046736
MRDS ID M241939
Record type Site
Current site name Urania Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.82062, 37.69662 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Relative position ABOUT 1.5 AIR MILE S. OF CACTUS SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cactus Spring(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)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003S 046E 10 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.82062, 37.69662
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PROBABLY SIMILAR TO THE CACTUS NEVADA SILVER MINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cactus Springs District

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS, TRENCHES, PITS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORBERG, J.R., 1977, USBM REPORT ON MINERAL RESOURCES IN VICINITY OF THE NELLIS AFB...

  • Deposit

    NBMG FILE 219, ITEM 6, - POTENTIAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL REGISTER SITE, LOCATION NO. NY 071

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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