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Florida Shaft

Occurrence in Lyon county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10050808
MRDS ID N000175
Record type Site
Current site name Florida Shaft
Alternate or previous names NBMG # 3652

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.67822, 39.25601 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lyon(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Virginia City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Carson(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lyon

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
16N 20E 13 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR PART OF THE OLD V&T RAILROAD BED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE SHAFT WAS SUNK ON A SHEAR ZONE HOSTED IN A DARK-GREENISH-GRAY META-ANDESITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Comstock

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS ARE QUITE EXTENSIVE CAVED SHAFT AND PROSPECTS, EVIDENCE THAT THE ADJACENT SPRING WAS USED AS MILL SITE.

Comments on development

  • UNKNOWN, BUT PART 0F EARLY EXPLORATION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TELLURIDE CLAIMS,COMSTOCK MINING DISTRICT,LYON COUNTY,QUADE VISIT SITE 5-11-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED MINING DISTRICT FILES (TINGLEY FILES)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE STRUCTURE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN BARREN AS VERY LITTLE VEIN MATERIAL WAS PRESENT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1989 Doebrich, Jeff L. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1991 Marcus, S. (Doebrich, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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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