1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Birch Creek Area

Unknown in Lander county in Nevada, United States with commodity Uranium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
Sections on this page
  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 10246332
MAS/MILS ID 0320150188
Record type Site
Current site name Birch Creek Area

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -117.05013, 39.39742 (WGS84)
Elevation 2194

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lander(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Austin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Smith Creek Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern 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 Lander

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 018 N 044 E 29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NOT FOUND DURING STUDY OF TOIYABE RANGE 1990-1995.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -117.05013, 39.39742
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    S 1/2 T18N-R44E; MONAZITE-BEARING PLACER REPORTED IN BIRCH C

  • Deposit

    NEV. BUR. OF MINES BULL. 81, 1973, P. 68

  • Deposit

    DIST

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 02-MAY-1995 Lipton, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

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