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Rickey Boy Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity 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. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10272071
MRDS ID M055468
MAS/MILS ID 0320270708
Record type Site
Current site name Rickey Boy Mine
Alternate or previous names Rickey Boy Claim
Related records 10040621

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -117.57066, 40.6385 (WGS84)
Elevation 1750
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sheep Ranch Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 032 N 039 E 21 NWNW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED APPROX. 1 MI UP SHEEP RANCH CANYON, THEN 0.5 MI SW OF THE CREEK

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -117.57066, 40.6385
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Tobin And Sonoma

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    USGS CRIB NO. MO55468

  • Deposit

    MILLER, 1996, MLA REPORT IN PROGRESS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-AUG-94 Miller 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.