New Moose Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities 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. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10295510
MAS/MILS ID 0320230023
Record type Site
Current site name New Moose Mine
Alternate or previous names New Moose, Moose Claim, New Moose Tungsten Mine Property, Buckeye Mine, New Moose Claim

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.25873, 38.97602 (WGS84)
Elevation 2292
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

South Toiyabe Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013 N 042 E 21 SWSENE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN SUMMIT CANYON E. SLOPE OF TOIYABE RANGE IN N. NYE CO. LAND STATUS MAP OF NEVADA SCALE 1:50 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC MAP, GQ-40, 1954, 1:125,000. UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN VOL. 50, NO. 3, 1951, P. 188-189 IS AN INCORRECT REFERENCE, PLEASE NOTE THE APRIL FOOL CLAIM IS PART OF GIANT MINE (0320230501), NOT BUCKEYE MINE. ANOMALOUS BISMUTH, CADMIUM.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Crossbedded quartzite, siltstone, and phyllite

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1953

Mining district

District name Twin River

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Kenneth Rogers
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 105, 1988,

  • Deposit

    P. 153-154.

  • Deposit

    EMMONS, S.F., 1869, MINING AND MILLING AT REESE RIVER, IN

  • Deposit

    KING, CLARENCE, REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF

  • Deposit

    THE FORTIETH PARARREL: PROFESSIONAL PAPERS OF THE

  • Deposit

    ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, U.S. ARMY, NO. 18, SECTION III,

  • Deposit

    P. 383.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 99B, 1984,

  • Deposit

    P. 198, 205-207.

  • Deposit

    UNPUBLISHED REPORT, AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT

  • Deposit

    PART OF THE TOIYABE RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS

  • Deposit

    TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 11-MAY-95 Lipton, David A. 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.