1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Slate Range Mine

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
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. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10197275
MRDS ID M055444
MAS/MILS ID 0320090372
Record type Site
Current site name Slate Range Mine
Alternate or previous names Pope Claims
Related records 10040607

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -117.23421, 37.39995 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 5000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Stonewall Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006 S 042 E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • MINE LOCATION IS REPORTED AS 9 MILES SW OF LIDA JUNCTION; EXACT LOCATION IS UNKNOWN.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -117.23421, 37.39995
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner General Mercury Corp.
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1969

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GALLAGHER, M.J., 1969, NEVADA MINES, MILLS, AND SMELTERS IN

  • Deposit

    OPERATION AS OF JULY 1, 1969: STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES,

  • Deposit

    NO. 7, P. 5.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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