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Senator Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Barium-Barite
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040291
MRDS ID M055001
Record type Site
Current site name Senator Mine
Alternate or previous names Red Bird Toquima
Related records 10246620

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.01092, 38.66687 (WGS84)
Elevation 2829
Relative position ABOUT 0.8 AIRMILE S65W FROM TOP OF SPANISH PEAK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Round Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 044E 02 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AT HEAD OF NORTH FORK OF MARIPOSA CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Metacinnabar Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Muscovite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Barite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Granite;Rhyolitic Tuff
    Rock description Granite;Rhyolitic Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Phyllites And Limestones
    Rock description Phyllites And Limestones

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.01092, 38.66687
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Veins Parallel Sheeting In Granite

Ore body information

  • General form SMALL, NARROW, DISCONTINOUS BODIES
    Strike N 29 E // N 14 E
    Dip SE 11 70 E
    Thickness 0.91M
    Length 38.1M
    Width 7.62M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Sheeting In Granite

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORDOVICIAN (?) PHYLLITES AND LIMESTONES INTRUDED BY GRANITE AND LOCALLY OVERLAIN BY TERTIARY RHYOLITIC TUFFS AND AGGLOMERATE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1925
Discoverer Charles And Jack Humphrey
Production years 1928-1930, 1938-1940

Mining district

District name Barcelona

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner George J. Barry
    Home office Los Angeles, Ca.
    First year 1943

Production statistics

  • Year 1957
    Period To 1957
    Material HG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^20 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 9035g/mt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • POSSIBILITIES AT DEPTH
  • POSSIBLY MORE ORE AS OF 1960.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 91.44M

Comments on the workings information

  • SEVERAL ADITS

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: 3 MILES OF PACK TRAIL FROM END OF SHOSHONE CANYON ROAD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 41, P. 136-137

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E.,1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 25.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COARSE METACINNABAR OCCURS WITH QUARTZ AND BARITE.{TWO MAIN WORKINGS: EAST // WEST

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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