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Mercury Hill Claims

Occurrence in Lincoln 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. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046497
MRDS ID M241666
Record type Site
Current site name Mercury Hill Claims
Alternate or previous names Mercury Hill No. 1 and No. 2 Claims
Related records 10246822

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.72223, 37.43469 (WGS84)
Elevation 1859
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position To Prospects Shown On Topo. Quad.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Slidy Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dry Lake Valley(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 065E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • DESCRIBED AS 5 MI SE OF OLD DELAMAR MINING CAMP, 2 MILES 2 OF CEDAR SPRINGS, AND 1 MILE SW OF HORN SPRINGS. EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.72223, 37.43469
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Delamar District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, UNPUBLISHED NBMG MANUSCRIPT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-84 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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