Nevada Hills Mine and Mill

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver
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. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10148895
MAS/MILS ID 0320010042
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Hills Mine and Mill
Alternate or previous names Eagles Nest, Side Winder, Lucky Earl, Lena, Florence, Ohio, Silver Bow, Boulder, New Yorker, Old Fairview, Synder, Nevada Fairview, Fairview, Eagle

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.17066, 39.24241 (WGS84)
Elevation 1731
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

Bell Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016 N 034 E 17 SE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Older alluvium and alluvial fan deposits

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Fairview District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Patented

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Echo Bay Mines Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Canada
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUR. MINMES IC 7093, 1940, P. 24-27.

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 83, 1974, P. 73.

  • Deposit

    THOMPSON. R.J., AND BOLENEUS, D.E., 1991, MINERAL RESOURCE

  • Deposit

    EVALUATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC STUDY OF THE PROPOSED MASTER

  • Deposit

    LAND WITHDRAWAL AT NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, CHURCHILL

  • Deposit

    COUNTY, NEVADA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

  • Deposit

    FOR THE U.S. NAVY, FIG. 4-1, P. 29.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-APR-94 Thompson U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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