Nevada Superior

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10125473
MRDS ID M060268
MAS/MILS ID 0320270239
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Superior
Related records 10042464, 10296023

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.54679, 40.69659 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Scossa(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 033 N 029 E 25 SWNWSE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.54679, 40.69659

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 89, 1977, P. 44,

  • Deposit

    PLATES 2A AND 4.

  • Deposit

    NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 61, 1963, P. 156.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES I.C. 6902, 1936, P. 8.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, M.S., 1993, EMIGRANT TRAIL STUDY AREA, U.S. BUREAU

  • Deposit

    OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 7-93, P. 95.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 11-JUL-1994 Miller U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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