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White Plains Flat

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity Salt
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10173024
MAS/MILS ID 0320010089
Record type Site
Current site name White Plains Flat
Alternate or previous names Desert Crystal Saltworks

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -118.77178, 39.8846 (WGS84)
Elevation 1183
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

White Plains(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)

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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023 N 029 E 06 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • THE WHITE PLAINS 7.5-MIN. TOPO MAP SHOWS WORKINGS EXTENDING INTO THE NW/4 SEC. 7.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Salt Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) Alluvium, undifferentiated
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Brine Operation
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lake Mining District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 7093, 1940, P. 36-37.

  • Deposit

    NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 83, 1974, P. 53.

  • Deposit

    SOUTHERN PACIFIC, 1964, MINERAL S FOR INDUSTRY, P. 53-54.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, USBM MLA REPORT IN PROGRESS, 1994.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-JUL-94 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

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.