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Gold Hill Mines

Plant in Storey county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver
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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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10222223
MAS/MILS ID 0320290057
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Hill Mines
Alternate or previous names N Y and Washoe, Confidence, Challenge

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -119.6538, 39.2916 (WGS84)
Elevation 2194
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Storey(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Virginia City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Carson(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Storey

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 017 N 021 E 32 SW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -119.6538, 39.2916
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Leach

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Frontier Energy Resources Inc.
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 37, 1943

  • Deposit

    USGS MONOGRAPH 3, 1882, P. 410.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-MAR-93 Ridenour, James 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

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