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Butte Quicksilver

Past Producer in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury
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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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10197286
MRDS ID M055383
MAS/MILS ID 0320070211
Record type Site
Current site name Butte Quicksilver
Alternate or previous names Ivanhoe, Velvet, Clementine, Rand, Bowers, Mayflower
Related records 10103793

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -116.56014, 41.1218 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Willow Creek Reservoir SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tuscarora(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rock(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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 038 N 048 E 33 SESESW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) Basalt, tuff, and breccia
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 41,1944,P.56,PLS 1-3

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 54,1957,P.79

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 8252,1965,P.236

  • Deposit

    USBM RI 5285,1956,P.28

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit POSSIBLY PART OF THE IVANHOE PROPERTY (0320070966) SOME EXPLORATION WAS DONE IN 1994,95 SEE THE IVANHOE FILE. MAY ALSO BE RELATED TO VELVET, (0320071134) & CLEMENTINE (0320070488).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-AUG-1996 Unknown 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

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