Greystone Mine and Grinding Plant

Plant in Lander county in Nevada, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10295255
MAS/MILS ID 0320159009
Record type Site
Current site name Greystone Mine and Grinding Plant
Alternate or previous names Battle Mt. Grinding Plant, Battle Mountain Grinding Plant, Greystone, Greystone Mine & Mill

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Plant
Geographic coordinates: -116.89534, 40.618 (WGS84)
Elevation 1378
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lander(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blossom Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Battle Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lander

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 032 N 045 E 27 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Plant (1) -116.89534, 40.618

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Processing Plant
Development status Plant
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Plant type Beneficiation (Mill)
Plant subcategory Crush

Mining district

District name Battle Mountain District

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Imco Services, Inc.
    ID 2601212
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1976, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

  • Deposit

    OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1975, P. 35.

  • Deposit

    NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1977, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

  • Deposit

    OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1976, P. 29.

  • Deposit

    MAJOR MINES OF NEVADA, 1995, THE NEVADA DIVISION OF MINERALS

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, SPEC. PUB P-7, 1996.

  • Deposit

    UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, NEVADA, PP. 10, 11.

  • Deposit

    RANDOL, 1996/1997, MINES DIRECTORY, US MINES AND MINING

  • Deposit

    COMPANIES, P248.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO OTHER GREYSTONE PROPERTY FILES EXITS: GREYSTONE 0320150073 & GREYSTONE MINE & MILL 0320150702 THESE COULD BE DUPLICATES OF THIS PROPERTY FILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-AUG-96 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 01/07/1987
MSHA mine ID2601212
Mine name (MSHA)Battle Mountain Grinding Plant
Current operatorImco Services
Current controller (parent)Halliburton Company
Mine typeFacility (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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