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Hoosier Mine

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Arsenic, Mercury, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10125150
MAS/MILS ID 0320232013
Record type Site
Current site name Hoosier Mine
Alternate or previous names Ledger Consolidated

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.04672, 38.53213 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manhattan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008 N 044 E 22 S2 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -117.04672, 38.53213
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Manhattan District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mary, Anne, And Elizabeth Mcintosh, Paw Paw, Michigan
    Interest 100
    Year 1988

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

  • Deposit

    RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THOS HOSSIER MINE CONSISTS OF SIX PATENTED CLAIMS NAMED LEDGER, AND LEDGER NOS. 1-5. IT WAS PATENTED IN 1917 AND KNOWN AS THE LEDGER CONSOLIDATED LODE. ONE SAMPLE HAD 12.5 PPM MERCURY AND 1 SAMPLE HAD 3000 PPM ARSENIC.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-MAR-95 Schmauch, Steven W. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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