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Twin Buttes

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Arsenic, 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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10247361
MRDS ID M060219
MAS/MILS ID 0320270205
Record type Site
Current site name Twin Buttes
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Site 2857
Related records 10103879

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -119.0132, 40.49629 (WGS84)
Elevation 1524
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Twin Buttes Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Kumiva Peak(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Granite Springs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 030 N 026 E 01 SWNWSE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -119.0132, 40.49629
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Staggs

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 89, 1977, P. 92,

  • Deposit

    PL. 2A.

  • Deposit

    NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-3, P.166.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, USBM MLA REPORT IN PROGRESS, 1994.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-JUL-94 Miller 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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