Alexander and Brooklyn

Plant in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Tungsten, 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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10295604
MAS/MILS ID 0320230034
Record type Site
Current site name Alexander and Brooklyn
Alternate or previous names Silver Palace, Murray Prospect, Great Eastern, Grantsville

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -117.58154, 38.84772 (WGS84)
Elevation 2103
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

Grantsville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern 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 011 N 039 E 03 SWNESE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1/2 MI N OF GRANTSVILLE

Commodities

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

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -117.58154, 38.84772

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Leach

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fury Explorations Ltd.
    Home office Canada
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 65, 1963,

  • Deposit

    P. 158-159.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 50, 1951,

  • Deposit

    P. 201-203.

  • Deposit

    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN VOL. 39, N. 6, GEOLOGY &

  • Deposit

    MINERAL SERIES NO. 43, 1945/

  • Deposit

    HAMILTON, M.M., 1993, MINES, PROSPECTS, AND MINERAL

  • Deposit

    OCCURRENCES IN THAT PART OF THE SHOSHONE RANGE, NEVADA,

  • Deposit

    ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST: U.S. BUREAU OF

  • Deposit

    MINES MLA OPEN-FILE REPORT 16-93, P. 65.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-MAY-95 Hamilton 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.