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Unnamed Mine Shaft

Prospect in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, 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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10149961
MRDS ID M055394
MAS/MILS ID 0320230713
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Mine Shaft
Alternate or previous names Prospect
Related records 10040571

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -116.14667, 36.99027 (WGS84)
Elevation 1621
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

Mine Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOE(Federal land areas administered by DOE)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011 S 052 E 17 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Tertiary
Mercury Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -116.14667, 36.99027
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. OFR 84-2, 1984, FIG. 3, P. 8;

  • Deposit

    APPENDIX A, SAMPLE NO. 1861.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOTE: OTHER MINES WERE SAMPLED ON MINE MOUNTAIN; SEE FIG. 3 IN REFERENCE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-FEB-94 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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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.