Kentucky Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Controls for ore emplacement
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047151
MRDS ID M242403
Record type Site
Current site name Kentucky Mine
Alternate or previous names Part of Palmetto Mine ?

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.66453, 37.49689 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 250(meters)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sylvania Mountains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 005S 039E 21 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN CAMP OF PALMETTO ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1982

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.66453, 37.49689

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Columbia Mountain Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Palmetto District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on development

  • FAIR-SIZED DUMPS CONTAINING MILL-GRADE ORE REMAINING IN 1960'S

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NOTTI, TONY. 1965, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON LIDA AND PALMETTO MINING DISTRICTS: NBMG FILE 95, ITEM 6.

  • Deposit

    BLM, 1982, PATENT CLAIMS RECORDS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-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.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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