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Black Jack Mine

Past Producer in Pershing 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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10149920
MRDS ID M055017
MAS/MILS ID 0320270284
Record type Site
Current site name Black Jack Mine
Alternate or previous names Eldorado Mine, Ruby
Related records 10040305, 10271773

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.21098, 40.52159 (WGS84)
Elevation 2024
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Star Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031 N 033 E 25 W2NESE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.21098, 40.52159
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1913

Mining district

District name Imlay District

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MINES BULL. 89, 1977, P. 59, PL. 2A

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR MINES BULL. 41, 1944, P. 172, PL. 1

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 8252, 1965, P. 239

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 6902, 1936, P. 16

  • Deposit

    NEV UNIV BULL., V. 38, NO. 5, 1944, P. 172-173

  • Deposit

    USGS GEOL MAP, GQ-666, 1957, 1/62500

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-94 Crandell, William D. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

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Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.