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Cinnabar No. 1 Claim

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 10047235
MRDS ID M242503
Record type Site
Current site name Cinnabar No. 1 Claim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.30918, 37.26136 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)
Relative position +/ 5000 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Pahranagat Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 061E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • DESCRIBED AS BEING IN THE ALAMO AREA, 3.5 MILES WEST OF THE M-1 TO M-14 ALAMO CLAIMS, BUT EXACT LOCATION IS UNKNOWN ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.30918, 37.26136
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1956
Discoverer J.H. Wise, Jack Sanderson, Lillian Wise

Mining district

District name Pahranagat (Closet Mining District); Alamo Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on development

  • STAKED AT A PERIOD OF HIGH MERCURY PRICE. PERHAPS RELOCATED BY EUGENE OKAMOTO

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, NBMG UNPUBLISHED REPORT

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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