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Broken Hills Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Molybdenum, 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 10246264
MRDS ID M030107
MAS/MILS ID 0320210001
Record type Site
Current site name Broken Hills Mine
Alternate or previous names Gaylord, Silver Trailer Group

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -118.01015, 39.05432 (WGS84)
Elevation 1627
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Broken Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gabbs Valley(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 014 N 035 E 23 S2S2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ALSO IN SEC 21

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -118.01015, 39.05432
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Broken Hills District

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 6941, 1937, P. 23.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5751, 1960, P. 1.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 58, 1961, P. 80,

  • Deposit

    TABLE 6.1.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 61, 1963, P. 125;

  • Deposit

    PLATE 1.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 03-JUN-92 Schmauch, Steven W. 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

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