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Solar Salt Mine

Past Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodity Halite
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046940
MRDS ID M242170
Record type Site
Current site name Solar Salt Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.39474, 39.3405 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position 10,000 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Yelland Dry Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 017N 067E 15 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN; UTM APPROXIMATE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Halite Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NOT CONFIRMED

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Lake Sediments
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.39474, 39.3405
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BEDDED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Spring Valley Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • AN ESTIMATED 2000 TONS PER YEAR WERE PRODUCED, WORTH $20-$40/TON DELIVERED TO AREA MINING CAMPS

Comments on development

  • SURFACE MINING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TERRADATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELY DISTRICT, NEVADA: PREPARED FOR BLM

  • Production

    TERRADATA, 1980

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-83 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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