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Cinnabar City Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Antimony
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  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 10040318
MRDS ID M055033
Record type Site
Current site name Cinnabar City Mine
Alternate or previous names Clack, King George Mine, Harris, Cinnabar King, Herbert Hoover Claims, Nancy and Jackie Claims 1975
Related records 10198037

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.09541, 40.31907 (WGS84)
Elevation 1780
Relative position TWO MILES SOUTH OF FITTING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fitting(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 028N 034E 01 SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • S/2 S/2 SEC. 1 - CINNABAR CITY MINE, W/2 W/2 SEC. 7 - KING GEORGE MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Calomel Unknown
Mercury Unknown
Stibnite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement

Analytical data

Result YIELD OF 38 LB HG PER FT OF WORKINGS. 10 LB ORE

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Natchez Pass
    Rock description Natchez Pass

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.09541, 40.31907
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Louderbacks

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Dip MODERATE TO STEEP, E
    Thickness 0.61M
    Length 22.86M
    Width 9.14M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: FOLDED AND FAULTED TRIASSIC LIMESTONE OVERLAIN BY PLEISTOCENE (?) BASALT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1916
Discoverer Matt Music (1926)
Year of first production 1916
Production years 1916, 1929-1931, 1940-1943

Mining district

District name Spring Valley District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner H. F. Honn ; Tancor International?
    First year 1943
  • Type Owner
    Owner E. N. Horn And Charles Stackhouse; Tancor International?
    First year 1975

Production statistics

  • Year 1962
    Period To 1962
    Material HG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^10 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 4518g/mt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES ARE SMALL

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 213.36M
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • (1943) WORKINGS, LAST OPERATED 1943.440-FT HAULAGE LEVEL THAT CONNECTS WITH AN INCLINED STOPE EXTENDING TO THE SURFACE ABOUT 100 FT ABOVE. OTHER SHORTER WORKINGS TAP THE SAME ORE SHOOT AT HIGHER LEVELS, AND WEST OF THE FURNACE SITE A SEPARATE ADIT WAS- DRIVEN 300 FT BUT FAILED TO FIND ANY ORE

Comments on development

  • IT WAS FIRST DEVELOPED BY W. H. HARRIS IN 1924-1926 AND SOLD TO GEORGE S. CLACK IN 1927. IN 1928 MR. CLACK ORGANIZ-ED THE CINNABAR KING MINING CO WHICH OPERATED THE PROPERTY UNT-IL 1931, PRODUCING ABOUT 250 FLASKS OF MERCURY IN RETORTS AND -A 15-TON ROTARY FURNACE. IN 1940 THE GROUND WAS RELOCATED BY T-HE AMERICAN ALMADEN MINING CO, ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY NOT ABANDON-ED BY MR. CLACK, AND TITLE WAS ALSO CLAIMED BY THE CINNABAR CI-TY MINING CO FROM 1944-49. IN 1953, EARL SIMPSON OBTAINED A CL-EAR TITLE, AND, AS HE ALSO HELD THE NEARBY HILLSIDE MINE, BOTH- PROPERTIES WERE SUBSEQUENTLY OPERATED TOGETHER. THE ROTARY FU-RNACE AND RETORTS WERE ON THE CINNABAR CITY PROPERTY, BUT APPA-RENTLY AFTER 1953, MOST OF THE ORE CAME FROM THE HILLSIDE MINE- AND IS CREDITED IN THE RECORDS TO THAT PROPERTY. IN 1973-1975-, TANCOR INTERNATIONAL IS RECORDED AS DOING ASSESSMENT WORK ON- THE CINNABAR CITY CLAIMS.

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

    HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., 1964, MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY...NORTHERN NEVADA AND NORTHWESTERN UTAH - SUMMARY OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF 1955 - 1961: VOL. 1, SO. PACIFIC CO., SAN FRANCISCO, 94105

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., RYTUBA, J. J. AND JONES, R. B., 1984,UNPUBLISHED DATA ON MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME RICH PODS OF ORE OCCUR. COARSE CINNABAR REPLACES VEIN CALCITE AT FAULT INTERSECTION. THE VEIN IS TERMINATED BY THE FAULT, WHICH COINCIDES WITH THE TUFF CONTACT, WHICH HAS LOCALIZED THE ORE. CINNABAR OCCURS AS FLECKS, STRINGERS, AND SMALL AGGREGATES IN CALCITE WITH VEINLETS OF CINNABAR EXTENDING INTO LIMESTONE WALLROCK. THE ONLY REALLY PRODUCTIVE ORE BODY WAS LOCALIZED IN THE CALCITE VEIN WHERE IT INTERSECTS THE OVERLYING VOLCANIC -ROCK. CINNABAR OCCURRED IN RICH PODS OR BUNCHES FORMING ORE OF- EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH GRADE, BUT LIMITED EXTENT. SOME WAS VERY C-OARSELY CRYSTALLINE, AND IF MINED IN 1980 WOULD BE SOLD AT PRE-MIUM PRICES TO THE ORIENTAL MARKET FOR MEDICINAL USE. AWAY FRO-M THE VEIN, A LITTLE ORE WAS MINED WHERE SCATTERED CINNABAR OC-CURRED DISSEMINATED IN LIMESTONE BENEATH THE VOLCANIC ROCK. SP-ARSE CINNABAR ALSO WAS SCATTERED THRU THE TUFF, AND WHILE NOT -OF ECONOMIC VALUE, IT INDICATES THE MINERALIZATION IS OF PLIOC-ENE OR LATER AGE.
Deposit ON GQ - 820, SHOWN AS HILLSIDE MINE, SEE HILLSIDE MINE CRIB RECORD NO. M055269 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT
Deposit Discovery Year: CA. 1916; 1926

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1973 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAY-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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