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Cinnabar Hill Mine

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury, Silver
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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. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10221789
MRDS ID M055400
MAS/MILS ID 0320010055
Record type Site
Current site name Cinnabar Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Cinnabar Hill Group, Robinson Quicksilver Mine
Related records 10040576

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.58377, 39.16101 (WGS84)
Elevation 1511
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Diamond Field Jack Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gabbs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015 N 030 E 13 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED ALSO IN SECTIONS 15,16,22

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Mercury Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.58377, 39.16101
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Holy Cross District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Coeur D'Alene Mines Corp.
    Interest 100
    Home office Idaho
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 7093, 1940, P. 31-32.

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 41, 1944, P. 50-51.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, USBM INFORM CIRC 7093, 1940, P.31-32

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, TABLE 24, P. 296.

  • Deposit

    THOMPSON, R.J., AND BOLENEUS, D.E. MINERAL RESOURCE EVALU-

  • Deposit

    ATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC STUDY OF THE PROPOSED MASTER LAND

  • Deposit

    WITHDRAWAL AT NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, CHURCHILL COUNTY,

  • Deposit

    NEVADA: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT FOR THE

  • Deposit

    U.S. NAVY, 1991, FIG. 4-6, P. 62.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 20-MAY-92 Thompson U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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