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Pershing Quicksilver Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Antimony, Copper, Gold, Lead, Mercury, Silver
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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 10198096
MRDS ID M055022
MAS/MILS ID 0320270363
Record type Site
Current site name Pershing Quicksilver Mine
Alternate or previous names Lovelock Quicksilver, Adamson Property
Related records 10040309

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.17177, 40.1343 (WGS84)
Elevation 1359
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

Buffalo Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 026 N 034 E 09 C W2SW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ALSO IN THE E/2 SEC. 8.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Mercury Primary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.17177, 40.1343
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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 1916

Mining district

District name Antelope Springs District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 89, 1977, P 48, 49, PL 2A

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 61, 1963, P 167, PLS 1 & 10

  • Deposit

    MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY,N.NEVADA & NW UTAH,SOUTHERN PACIFIC,19

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 41, 1944, P 164, PLS 1, 19, 20 & 21

  • Deposit

    USBM RI 5285, 1956, P 18

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 8252, 1965, P 249

  • Deposit

    USBM IC 6902, 1936, P 27

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 15-MAR-94 Linne, James M. U.S. Bureau of Mines

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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