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(Facility) Smelter Shaft

Plant in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Cadmium, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Tungsten, Zinc
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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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10246277
MRDS ID M241725
MAS/MILS ID 0320170350
Record type Site
Current site name (Facility) Smelter Shaft
Alternate or previous names Florence Claims, Florence No. 1 Claim, Florence No. 2 Claims, Ellen, Shonte, Trident, NBMG Sample Sites 1761 and 3288
Related records 10098666

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.58257, 37.92305 (WGS84)
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

Worthington Peak(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 001 N 057 E 28 SWNE Nevada

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.58257, 37.92305
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Freiberg District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 69-85, 1985, P. 8-15.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. REPORT 46, 1991, P. 10-11.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-JUN-93 Wood 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

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