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Scheebar

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Tungsten
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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 10222527
MRDS ID D001284
MAS/MILS ID 0320230032
Record type Site
Current site name Scheebar
Alternate or previous names North Star, Scheebar Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.82034, 38.80992 (WGS84)
Elevation 2499
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Paradise Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011 N 037 E 21 NE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -117.82034, 38.80992
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 41, 1944, P. 140-141.

  • Deposit

    GEOL. SOC. AMER. MEMOIR, 15, 1946, P. 34, 36, 65, 179-189.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, P. 278, 296.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, F. L., 1991, MINES, PROSPECTS, AND MINERAL

  • Deposit

    OCCURRENCES IN THAT PART OF THE PARADISE RANGE, NV,

  • Deposit

    ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES

  • Deposit

    OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 4-91, APPENDIX A, FIGURE A-12;

  • Deposit

    APPENDIX B, TABLES B-1 AND B-2, SAMPLES 528-530, 794,

  • Deposit

    817.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-JUL-91 Johnson 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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