Key West Mine

Past Producer in Clark county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Nickel, Palladium, 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10124825
MRDS ID M045355
MAS/MILS ID 0320030005
Record type Site
Current site name Key West Mine
Related records 10038079

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -114.16691, 36.61809 (WGS84)
Elevation 1170
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Clark(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Whitney Pocket(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Overton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Las Vegas(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Clark

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015 S 070 E 21 NESENE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -114.16691, 36.61809

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 62, 1965, P. 123-125, 178.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 6964, 1937, P. 16-18.

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. REPORT 45, 1989, P. 3-4.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-FEB-93 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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