The Copper Blue Mine is a gemstone mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,850 feet.
About the MRDS Data:
All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 6,850 Feet (2,088 Meters)
Commodity: Gemstone
Lat, Long: 38.5267, -116.88810
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Copper Blue Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Copper Blue Mine
Secondary: Copper Blue No. 2
Secondary: Zabriski Copper Property
Secondary: Zabrisky
Secondary: Monarch Star Min
Secondary: Monarch Property
Secondary: Arc Nos. 1-28 1986
Secondary: Monitor Nos. 1-50 1989
Commodity
Primary: Gemstone
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL MRDS RECORDS HAS THIS PROPERTY IN TRIPLICATE: MONARCH RANCH (M233479), COPPER BLUE MINE (M233477), AND ZABRISKIE COPPER PROSPECT (M233481). THIS PROPERTY HAS FIVE ALIGNED SHAFTS, LOCATED ON THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TOPO MAP. THE CLAIMS WERE RELOCATED IN 1986 BY KENNECOTT EXPLORATION AS ARC NOS. 1-28 AND MONITOR NOS. 1-50 BY J.B. DIXON IN 1989. GEMSTONE COMMODITY IS TURQUOISE.
References
Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.
Reference (Deposit): ITEM 1 (ZABRISKI COPPER).
Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA
Reference (Deposit): P. 30-32 AND FIGURE 9B, NO. 5.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY HISTORICAL FILES NO. 215,
Reference (Deposit): PLATE 1.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 99B, 1984,
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY REPORT 17, 1968, P. 25,
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
