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Highway I-80 Quarry

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098627
MRDS ID M233124
Record type Site
Current site name Highway I-80 Quarry

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.96238, 39.83934 (WGS84)
Elevation 1311
Relative position JUST N. OF HIGHWAY I-80, ABOUT 5 MILES NE OF BRADY'S HOT SPRINGS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Desert Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023N 027E 21 SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION IS THE MINE SYMBOL WITHIN THE PIT AREA ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Diatomite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Diatomite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.96238, 39.83934
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Leete District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • QUARRY

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MILS, 1979, USBM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1981 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 10-OCT-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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