Red Wing Prospect

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10125086
MAS/MILS ID 0320231055
Record type Site
Current site name Red Wing Prospect
Alternate or previous names Red and Almaden Claims, Qcr Claims, Beta Claims, NBMG Sample Sites 1471 and 3197

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.94668, 37.75665 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Top(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002 S 054 E 19 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Unknown
Cinnabar Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Limonite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.94668, 37.75665

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Field Value
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 FISSURE VEIN
    Shape of Orebody #1 TABULAR
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Date of Last Modification 940124

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. OFR OF84-1, 1984.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. REPORT 46, 1991, P. 22.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-JAN-94 Stevenson U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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