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Van Ness Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040292
MRDS ID M055002
Record type Site
Current site name Van Ness Mine
Alternate or previous names Ott Shaft, Stovepipe Tunnel
Related records 10174114

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.97898, 38.6441 (WGS84)
Elevation 2719
Relative position 1.2 MILES SW OF BARCELONA SUMMIT

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jefferson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(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 01,12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • TOWNSHIP UNSURVEYED . PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 8 CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result MINE YIELDED 38 LB HG PER FT. OF WORKINGS. GEN. LOW GRADE ORE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock unit name Granite;Rhyolite
    Rock description Granite;Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.97898, 38.6441
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ore In Roof Pendant

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, IRREGULAR
    Strike EASTERLY
    Dip MODERATE
    Thickness 6.1M
    Length 426.72M
    Width 9.14M
    Depth to bottom 54.86M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Metasedimentary Rocks

Comments on the geologic information

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

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1928
Discoverer J. Humphrey
Production years 1928-1931, 1936-1942

Mining district

District name Barcelona District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Reliance Minerals Corp.
    First year 1959
  • Type Owner
    Owner Homer Williams And John Connolly
    Home office Tonopah, Nv.
    First year 1943

Production statistics

  • Year 1957
    Period To 1957
    Material HG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^10-20 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 6776g/mt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES APPARENTLY SMALL
  • POSSIBLE POTENTIAL LOW GRADE ORE (1949)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • (WORKINGS IN 1942) LAST OPERATED 1942. CAVED. WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SERIES OF CROSSCUTS ADITS, DRIFTS, RAISES, TWO GLORY HOLES, AND A 135 FT INCLINED SHAFT (OTT).

Comments on development

  • DMEA CONTRACT RECOMMENDED DENIED IN 1957

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. 138.

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U.S.: U.S. BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 257.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE BODIES (ARE ALL WITHIN THE CHERT) ARE NARROW AND ELONGATE PARALLEL TO THE BEDDING - N 70 W / 45 S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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