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Death Valley Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Lead
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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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047123
MRDS ID M242373
Record type Site
Current site name Death Valley Mine
Alternate or previous names Redwing Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.48702, 37.45051 (WGS84)

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 N2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON WISCONSIN MOUNTAIN, EAST OF LIDA. UTM IS TO ONE OF SEVERAL OF THE WORKINGS ON WISCONSIN MOUNTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Lead Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore

Analytical data

Result "HIGH-GRADE" (1909)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.48702, 37.45051
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Lida (Alida Valley, Tule Canyon) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Red Wing Mining Co. Of San Francisco , W. G. Chamberlain, Manager
    First year 1909

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 304.8M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • OVER 1000 FT. OF DEVELOPMENT TO A DEPTH OF 150 FT. HAD BEEN DONE BY 1909

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COUCH, B.F. AND CARPENTER, J.A., 1943, NBMG BULL 38, P. 54.

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    COUCH & CARPENTER, 1943, P. 54.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE WAS EARLIER (PRIOR TO 1909) TREATED AT STEWART 10-STAMP MILL NEAR LIDA.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-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.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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