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Wisconsin Extension

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047114
MRDS ID M242364
Record type Site
Current site name Wisconsin Extension

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.49147, 37.45162 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN, 500 M To Area Of Group

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lida(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 040E 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • "NEAR LIDA" ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.49147, 37.45162
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1875
Year of first production 1875

Mining district

District name Lida (Alida Valley, Tule Canyon) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 68.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • 225-FT SHAFT

Comments on development

  • MINE WAS WORKED IN 1800'S THEN WAS ACTIVELY BEING DEVELOPED IN 1909.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROOT, W. A., 1909, "THELIDA MINING DISTRICT OF NEVADA"; MINING WORLD, VOL. 31, P. 123-125

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1870'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-82 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.

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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.