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Enator Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Barium-Barite, 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10246620
MRDS ID M055001
MAS/MILS ID 0320230254
Record type Site
Current site name Enator Mine
Alternate or previous names Red Bird Mine, Red Bird Toquima Mine, Red Bird, Zero, Zero Mine, Senator Mercury Mine
Related records 10040291

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.00452, 38.65433 (WGS84)
Elevation 2780
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Round Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009 N 044 E 11 W2SENE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -117.00452, 38.65433
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1928
Year of first production 1929

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 50, 1951, P. 25 (KRA).

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, P. 257.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPORT 86-14,MAP.

  • Deposit

    SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGISTS, 1986, VOL. 81, NO. 2,

  • Deposit

    P. 390 (MAP LOCATION).

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 99B, 1984,

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL AND ZIONY, P. 15 (MAP LOCATION), AND

  • Deposit

    P. 179-180.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MIESCELLANEOUS FILE STUDIES MAP

  • Deposit

    MP-834, 1977, DR. SHAW.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 41, P. 136-137,

  • Deposit

    BAILITY AND PHOENIX.

  • Deposit

    AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

  • Deposit

    RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 24-JUL-96 Schmauch, Steven W. 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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