Hillside Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Tungsten
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. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10247025
MRDS ID M055269
MAS/MILS ID 0320270337
Record type Site
Current site name Hillside Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.09597, 40.3191 (WGS84)
Elevation 1670
Location accuracy 100(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 035 E 06 SWSWSW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.09597, 40.3191

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Spring Valley

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 41, 1944, P 337

  • Deposit

    MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY,N NEVADA & NW UTAH,SOUTHERN PACIFIC,19

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 8252, 1965, P 244

  • Deposit

    USGS GEOL MAP GQ-820, 1969, 1/62,500

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-FEB-87 Unknown U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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