Killie Mine

Past Producer in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Lead, Manganese, 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. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10173825
MRDS ID W016370
MAS/MILS ID 0320070273
Record type Site
Current site name Killie Mine
Alternate or previous names Latham, Juniper, Spruce Mountain Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -114.82148, 40.56932 (WGS84)
Elevation 2615
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spruce Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Wendover(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Elko(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Long-Ruby 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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031 N 063 E 14 SWNENE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Lead Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -114.82148, 40.56932

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Spruce Mountain

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MIN BULL 54, 1957, PP. 142-144.

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MIN BULL 14, 1931, PP.16-19, FIG.5.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 14-NOV-83 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) 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.