Antelope Prospects

Prospect in Washoe county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury
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 10125304
MRDS ID M055254
MAS/MILS ID 0320310084
Record type Site
Current site name Antelope Prospects
Alternate or previous names Antelope Nos. 1-18, Lodestar Nos. 1-60
Related records 10040461

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -119.58993, 41.80876 (WGS84)
Elevation 1884
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bald Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Guano(hydrologic unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Oregon Closed Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 045 N 021 E 23 NESENW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -119.58993, 41.80876

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Comments on the workings information

  • 113 PITS & 39 TRENCHES, MOSTLY FROM A BULLDOZER, ARE SPREAD OUT OVER SECTIONS 22, 23, AND 24.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 70, 1970, P. 70.

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, P. 269.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5285, 1956, P. 42.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 931-B, 1941, P. 24-28.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1538, 1984, P. 102-104.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, M.S., 1993, EMIGRANT TRAIL STUDY AREA, U.S. BUREAU

  • Deposit

    OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT, MLA 7-93, P. 64.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 21-JUN-94 Tuchek U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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