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Drummer Shaft

Past Producer in White Pine 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103572
MRDS ID M031269
Record type Site
Current site name Drummer Shaft
Related records 10247320

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.41113, 39.03883 (WGS84)
Elevation 2042

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogum(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 14N 67E 26 SE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.41113, 39.03883
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEIN IS 4 FT WIDE, FORMED OF FINE GRAINED GRANITE PORPHYRY AND QUARTZ

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 5.49M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEEKS, F.B., 1908 GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OSCEOLA MINING DISTRICT, WHITE PINE CO., NEV. U.S. GEO. BULL 340

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Giorgi, Albert John (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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