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Cinnabar City Mercury Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Antimony, Mercury, Tungsten
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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 10198037
MRDS ID M055033
MAS/MILS ID 0320270115
Record type Site
Current site name Cinnabar City Mercury Mine
Alternate or previous names Cinnabar City, King George Mine, Cinnabar King Quicksilver, Harris
Related records 10040318

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.09767, 40.3138 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fitting(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(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)

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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028 N 034 E 01 SESESE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Mercury Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.09767, 40.3138
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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

Mining district

District name Spring Valley

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MINES BULL. 89, 1977, P. 91-92 PL. 2A

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MINES BULL. 61, 1963, P. 196, PL. 1 & 10

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MINEES BULL. 41, 1944, P. 178 PL. 1

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 8252, 1965, P. 244

  • Deposit

    USBM INFORM CIRC 6902, 1936, P. 42

  • Deposit

    USGS GEOL MAP GQ-820, 19698 1/62,500

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 29-DEC-1994 Mayerle, Ronald T. 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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