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Petrel Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Antimony
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098373
MRDS ID M035485
Record type Site
Current site name Petrel Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.08261, 38.15271 (WGS84)
Elevation 1786
Relative position PICKHANDLE CANYON EAST OF CANDELARIA MTN. EST. LOCATION, 1,300 FT. SOUTH OF BELLE SHAFT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Candelaria(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Excelsior Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004N 035E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • GROUP OF ADITS ON FLANKS OF PICKHANDLE GULCH

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Jamesonite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.08261, 38.15271
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Candelaria

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE, E.F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 61

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DATA FROM RECORD M233401 MERGED INTO THIS RECORD. M233401 DELETED. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Fiebelkorn, J. B. (Stewart, J. H.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.