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

Nevada Sulphur Company Mine

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Silver, Sulfur
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10271189
MRDS ID M055339
MAS/MILS ID 0320130409
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Sulphur Company Mine
Alternate or previous names Edmanson Quicksilver Property, Black Rock Mine, Devils Corral, Shoel Pit
Related records 10040525

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -118.65959, 40.83488 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
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

Sulphur(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 034 N 029 E 01 SESESE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Sulfur Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -118.65959, 40.83488
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Rosebud

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NV BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 41, 1944, P. 108, PL. 1.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES I.C. 8252, 1965, P. 270.

  • Deposit

    MILLER, M.S., 1993, EMIGRANT TRAIL STUDY AREA, U.S. BUREAU

  • Deposit

    OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 7-93, P. 89.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 13-OCT-94 Linne, James M. 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.