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Keg Prospect

Prospect in Mineral 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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10198260
MRDS ID M055323
MAS/MILS ID 0320210211
Record type Site
Current site name Keg Prospect
Related records 10040514

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -117.93284, 38.38323 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bettles Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006 N 036 E 14 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • POSSIBLY LOCATED IN SEC 15

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -117.93284, 38.38323
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES BULL. 41, 1944, P. 124, PL. 1

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 973-D, 1952, P. 162

  • Deposit

    USBM INFORM CIRC. 8252, 1965, P. 262, 295

  • Deposit

    NEV BUR OF MINES RPT. 14, 1966, P. 26

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 25-NOV-1983 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) 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.