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Section 17 Mine

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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10124442
MAS/MILS ID 0320010368
Record type Site
Current site name Section 17 Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -119.08429, 39.5138 (WGS84)
Elevation 1350
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hazen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 019 N 026 E 17 E2NE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Diatomite Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -119.08429, 39.5138
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Cyprus Mines Corp.
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1979

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1980, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

  • Deposit

    OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1979, P. 4.

  • Deposit

    NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1985, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

  • Deposit

    OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1984, P. 4.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-APR-94 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • Cyprus Mines Corp. — now part of Subsidiary of Freeport-McMoRan (2007)
    Merged with AMAX into Cyprus Amax (1993); then to Phelps Dodge (1999); then to Freeport-McMoRan (2007).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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Authoritative Nevada resources

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