The Dodge-Ford Mine is a mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,140 feet.
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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: 4,140 Feet (1,262 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 40.0694, -118.20000
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Dodge-Ford Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Dodge-Ford Mine
Secondary: Ford Mine
Secondary: Iron Horse
Secondary: Iron Colt
Commodity
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Mineral Basin District
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: Fee Ownership
Type: Private Lease
Workings
Type: Surface
Ownership
Owner Name: C. W. Hunley And Others
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1971
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1954
Discovery Year: 1952
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
Unknown: Apatite
Unknown: Scapolite
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Chlorite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): DOMAIN IS PRIVATE AND BLM ADMINISTERED. GENERAL LOCATION: ABOUT 25 KM SE OF LOVELOCK MINING METHOD: OPEN PIT GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY: MEDIUM PAST PRODUCTION: 800000 T PRIOR TO 1971 (1482)
References
Reference (Deposit): IC 8511, 1971, 207 PP.
Reference (Deposit): IRON RESOURCES AND IRON ORE MARKETS. BUMINES
Reference (Deposit): 454. MOORE, L. ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF CALIFORNIA-NEVADA
Reference (Deposit): GEOLOGY BULLETIN 89, 1977, 115 PP.
Reference (Deposit): PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA. NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND
Reference (Deposit): 329. JOHNSON, M. G. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF
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.
