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Auburn Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, 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 10247058
MRDS ID M060485
MAS/MILS ID 0320270395
Record type Site
Current site name Auburn Mine
Alternate or previous names Auburn
Related records 10042630

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -117.86657, 40.76629 (WGS84)
Elevation 1820
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

Rose Creek Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 033 N 037 E 06 C NW Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -117.86657, 40.76629
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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

Mining district

District name Sierra

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 89, 1977, P. 89-90,

  • Deposit

    PLATE 2A.

  • Deposit

    U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 610, 1968, P. 196.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES I.C. 6902, 1936, P. 39.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, 1996, MLA REPORT IN PREPARATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-OCT-94 Leszcykowski, Andrew 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

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