Brady Pit

Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity Diatomite
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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10124960
MAS/MILS ID 0320010193
Record type Site
Current site name Brady Pit
Alternate or previous names Brady Pit -Cyprus Mines Corp.

Comments on the site names

  • MAY BE SAME AS WHITE HILL DIATOMACEOUS DEPOSIT, SEQ.# NUMBER 0320010168, MINERAL PROPERTY FIL 22.005 OR SAME AS HIGHWAY I-80DEPOSIT,SEQ # 0320010166

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -118.92929, 39.8385 (WGS84)
Elevation 1326
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023 N 027 E 28 NWNWNW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Diatomite Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -118.92929, 39.8385

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cyprus Mines Corp.
    ID 2600731
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1976, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

  • Deposit

    OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1976, P. 1.

  • Deposit

    NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1982, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

  • Deposit

    OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1981, P. 1.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-APR-94 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 01/19/1979
MSHA mine ID2600731
Mine name (MSHA)Brady Pit
Current operatorCr Minerals Corp
Current controller (parent)Canyon Resources Corp
Mine typeSurface (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

Authoritative Nevada resources

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