Bumblebee-Grey Horse Prospect

Occurrence in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold
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. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047693
MRDS ID M243117
Record type Site
Current site name Bumblebee-Grey Horse Prospect
Alternate or previous names Bumble Bee, Grey Horse #1, #2, Grey Horse, Kingstone, Triangle Fraction Patented Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.11485, 39.47602 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Wonder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 019N 034E 25,36 S2 OF S2 (25); N2 OF N2 (36) Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SOUTH AND SE OF DICKEY PEAK. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.11485, 39.47602

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1906

Mining district

District name Wonder District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Nevada Wonder Mining And Milling Co. New Era Mining And Development Co,
    First year 1912

Comments on development

  • SURVEYED IN 1908 (MS #3424), PATENTED IN 1912, AT WHICH TIME CLAIMS WERE OWNED BY THE NEVADA WONDER MINING AND MILLING CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CHURCHILL COUNTY COURTHOUSE RECORDS.

  • Deposit

    USDI, BLM, MINING CLAIM RECORDS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1986 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.