Silver Cloud Mine

Past Producer in Elko 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. 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 10270929
MRDS ID M055013
MAS/MILS ID 0320070220
Record type Site
Current site name Silver Cloud Mine
Alternate or previous names Clipper Mine
Related records 10040301

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -116.61154, 41.056 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Willow Creek Reservoir SE(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tuscarora(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Rock(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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 037 N 047 E 25 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -116.61154, 41.056

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Ivanhoe District

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ALSO IN SEC 26

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 41, 1944, P.61, PL. 1

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 54, 1957, P.83

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 8252, 1965, P.238

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 05-NOV-1984 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) 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.