Birthday Mine

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Antimony, Arsenic, 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. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10295193
MRDS ID M232764
MAS/MILS ID 0320130602
Record type Site
Current site name Birthday Mine
Alternate or previous names Chefoo Tunnel ?
Related records 10045102

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.58928, 41.82548 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckskin Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn River Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 046 N 039 E 33 SENW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -117.58928, 41.82548

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 Bottle Creek District

Reference information

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 07-MAR-94 Crandell, William D. 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.