Bonanza King Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10174951
MRDS ID M060381
MAS/MILS ID 0320270335
Record type Site
Current site name Bonanza King Mine
Alternate or previous names Eagle, Lady Mary
Related records 10042554

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.10347, 40.3318 (WGS84)
Elevation 1512
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

Fitting(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie 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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028 N 034 E 01 N2NWNE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.10347, 40.3318

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Spring Valley

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 89, 1977, P. 90-91, PL. 2A

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 1356, 1973, PP. 80-81

  • Deposit

    USGS PROF. PAPER 610, 1968, P. 197

  • Deposit

    USBM INFORM CIRC 6902, 1936, P. 18

  • Deposit

    USGS GEOL. MAP, GQ-820, 1969, 1/62,500

  • Deposit

    RPT), P. 553

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 414, 1909, P. 36-37

  • Deposit

    CAMPBELL, DONALD F., GEOLOGY OF THE BONANZA KING MINE, HUM-

  • Deposit

    BOLDT RANGE, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: M.S., CORNELL UNIV.,

  • Deposit

    1938, MAP SCALE: 1:8,180

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 29-DEC-94 Mayerle, Ronald T. 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.