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Robinson District

Producer in White Pine county in Nevada, United States with commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Platinum, Palladium, Rhenium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Alteration
  7. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60000966
MRDS ID M046657
Record type District
Current site name Robinson District
Alternate or previous names Liberty, Tripp, Ruth, Emma, Veteran, Kimberly, Ruth District, Ely, Kimberly District

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.99947, 39.25664 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)
Relative position LOCATION GIVEN IS WITHIN LIBERTY PIT; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = ELY 1:625000, ACC ACCURATE WITHIN DISTRICT, ACC ACCURATE WITHIN DISTRICT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ruth(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe 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 White Pine

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Lead Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Molybdenum Secondary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Palladium Critical Secondary
Rhenium Secondary

Alteration

  • (Local) SEVERAL ALTERATION STAGES

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 58
USGS model code 18a
Deposit model name Porphyry Cu, skarn-related
Mark3 model number 9

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.99947, 39.25664
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Discovery year 1867
Discoverer Mr. Robinson And Others
Year of first production 1907

Mining district

District name ROBINSON DISTRICT
District name RUTH DISTRICT
District name KIMBERLY DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner KENNECOTT COPPER CORP.
    Year 1969

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, R.M., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 85, PART II, P. 37, 38, 66, 72, 68.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGI, 1994, MI-1993

  • Deposit

    NEVADA DIVISION OF MINERALS, 1994

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • KENNECOTT COPPER CORP. — acquired by Subsidiary of Rio Tinto (1989)
    Acquired by RTZ (now Rio Tinto) in 1989. Continues to operate the Bingham Canyon mine and other assets under the Kennecott name.

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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