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Elder Creek Mine

Past Producer in Lander county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055211
MRDS ID RE00281
Record type Site
Current site name Elder Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names Shoshone
Related records 10310325

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.85037, 40.30269 (WGS84)
Elevation 2286

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lander(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ferris Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Crescent Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Lander

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028N 046E 18 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = WINNEMUCCA (1971) 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 172
USGS model code 26a
Deposit model name Carbonate-hosted Au-Ag
Mark3 model number 15

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.85037, 40.30269
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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

Mining district

District name Bullion

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALTA GOLD COMPANY, 1989, ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE ALTA GOLD COMPANY ELDER CREEK.

  • Deposit

    NBMG, 1992, THE NEVADA MINERAL INDUSTRY - 1991, NBMG SPECIAL PUBLICATION MI-1991.

  • Deposit

    NBMG, 1994, MI-1993

  • Production

    1991 AND 1992 ANNUAL PRODUCTION: NBMG, 1992, THE NEVADA MINERAL INDUSTRY - 1991, NBMG SPECIAL PUBLICATION MI-1991. NBMG MI-1993

  • Reserve-Resource

    NBMG MI-1993

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1993 Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Moyer, Lorre A.) U.S. Geological Survey

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