1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Silver State Mine

Occurrence in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  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 10047077
MRDS ID M242322
Record type Site
Current site name Silver State Mine
Alternate or previous names Silver State Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.21147, 37.92661 (WGS84)
Elevation 1658
Relative position ABOUT 1.8 AIRMILES EAST OF ROUTE 95 AND 2.4 AIRMILES WEST OF THE NYE COUNTY LINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mud Lake NW(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(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

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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 042E 24 NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • CLAIMS ADJOIN GOLDEN STATE CLAIMS ON THE NORTH. UTM IS TO APPROXIMATE CENTER OF CLAIM BLOCK, WHICH EXTENDS LATERALLY FOR UP TO 200 M. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sedimentary Breccia
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Fraction Tuff-Tonopah Summit-Member
    Rock description Fraction Tuff-Tonopah Summit-Member
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.21147, 37.92661
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Klondyke (Southern Klondyke) District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Silver State Divide Mining Co.
    First year 1922

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 92, P. 130-132.

  • Deposit

    WEED, W.H., ED., 1922, THE MINES HANDBOOK, VOL XV., P. 1335

  • Deposit

    CHIPP, E.R., UNR MINES THESIS 351

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1982 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.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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