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North Tem Piute Mine

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, Tungsten, Zinc
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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 10270988
MRDS ID D001178
MAS/MILS ID 0320170013
Record type Site
Current site name North Tem Piute Mine
Alternate or previous names Y-Z, North Tem Piute, Schofield, Rae Ella
Related records 10107653

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -115.63167, 37.63416 (WGS84)
Elevation 2121
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tempiute Mountain North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004 S 056 E 01 NE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Molybdenum Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Primary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -115.63167, 37.63416
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1928
Year of first production 1941

Mining district

District name Tem Piute

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 73, 1970, P. 146-147.

  • Deposit

    NV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 105, 1988, P. 110-111.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 10-JAN-94 Ridenour, James 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

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