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Betty Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040298
MRDS ID M055009
Record type Site
Current site name Betty Mine
Alternate or previous names Red Wing, Betty and Messenger
Related records 10198294

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.94038, 38.35576 (WGS84)
Elevation 2524
Relative position 0.8 MILES NW OF BETTY SPRING.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eddyville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 036E 23 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE MAY BE ALTERATION PRODUCT OF A MERCURIAL SULFIDE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE WAS LOW. MINE YIELDED 13 LB HG PER FT. OF WORKINGS. 5 - 10 LB ORE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Hornblende Andesite
    Rock description Hornblende Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert
    Rock unit name Dunlap Formation
    Rock description Dunlap Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.94038, 38.35576
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description North - Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, LENSES
    Strike NORTHERLY
    Dip STEEP
    Width 0.61M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures In Chert. Also Fault Breccia.

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRIASSIC SEDIMENTARY AND VOLCANIC ROCKS WERE FOLDED AND THRUST FAULTED IN EARLY JURASSIC. THESE ARE OVERLAIN AND INTRUDED BY TERT ANDESITE AND RHYOLITE. SUBSEQUENT NORMAL FAULTING ; MAJOR.UNITS: MESOZOIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1918
Discoverer H. Betty And E. Messenger
Year of first production 1926
Production years 1921, 1926-1929, 1934-1935, 1937-1941

Mining district

District name Pilot Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mrs. Theresa Betty

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 173.74M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS IN 1941. CAVED. LAST OPERATED 1941.

Comments on development

  • DMEA CONTRACT RECOMMENDED DENIED

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41

  • Deposit

    ROSS, 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

    PHOENIX AND CATHCART, 1951, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973 - D.

  • Deposit

    5) FOSHAG, 1927, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 795 - E.

  • Production

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE LOCALIZED IN FAULT BRECCIA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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