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Velvet Mine Area

Unknown in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, 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. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10150010
MRDS ID M060237
MAS/MILS ID 0320270218
Record type Site
Current site name Velvet Mine Area
Alternate or previous names Magmatic Gold Mine, Nype, Bv, Vent, Vl
Related records 10042442

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -118.76739, 40.24159 (WGS84)
Elevation 1620
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lowry Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 027 N 029 E 06 NESWNE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -118.76739, 40.24159
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Velvet

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 89, 1977, P. 99, PL. 2A.

  • Deposit

    MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY,N.NEVADA & NW UTAH SOUTHERN PACIFIC.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, 1994, MLA REPORT IN PROGRESS, GREAT BASIN ECOSYSTEM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 09-DEC-96 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) 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.