Eureka District-Nevada

Occurrence in Eureka county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Copper
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000899
MRDS ID K003373
Record type District
Current site name Eureka District-Nevada
Related records 10310481

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.00089, 39.49992 (WGS84)
Relative position PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = MILLETT 1:250000

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Eureka(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Spring Valley Summit(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Summit Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Eureka

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Gold Primary
Lead Primary
Copper Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.00089, 39.49992

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic

Mining district

District name EUREKA DISTRICT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCKNIGHT, E.T., NEWMAN, W.L., AND HEYL, A.V., JR. (COMPILERS), 1962, ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES, EXCLUSIVE OF ALASKA AND HAWAII: USGS MINERAL INV. RESOURCE MAP MR-19, SEPARATE TEXT, 18 P.

  • Deposit

    SHARP, WM., 1948, THE STORY OF EUREKA (NEVADA): AM. INST. MINING AND METALL. ENGINEERS TRANS., V. 178, P. 206-217.

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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