Little Soda Lake

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity Sodium
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. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10221374
MAS/MILS ID 0320010135
Record type Site
Current site name Little Soda Lake

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -118.88288, 39.5152 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Soda Lake West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 019 N 028 E 18 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Sodium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -118.88288, 39.5152

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1868

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MONOTRAPH 11, 1885, P. 73-80.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 7093, 1940, P. 43.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOL. SURVYE PROF. PAPER 401, 1964, P. 116.

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES ANDG EOL. BULLEITN 83, 1974, P. 54.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-APR-94 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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