Section 9 Shaft

Prospect in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Uranium, Zeolites
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10222124
MRDS ID M241694
MAS/MILS ID 0320170484
Record type Site
Current site name Section 9 Shaft
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 1461
Related records 10046521

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.67977, 37.60856 (WGS84)
Elevation 1670
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tempiute Mountain South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(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

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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004 S 056 E 09 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Zeolites Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Zeolite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.67977, 37.60856

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Field Value
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 STRATIFORM
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin SEDIMENTATION
    Date of Last Modification 940127

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tem Piute

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. OFR OF84-1, 1984.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. REPORT 46, 1991, P. 28.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 27-JAN-94 Stevenson 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.