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Harvey Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Gold
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  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 10040502
MRDS ID M055308
Record type Site
Current site name Harvey Mine
Alternate or previous names Denver Cooperative Mining Corp., Telluride Group
Related records 10295576

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.65756, 36.89247 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position 1.1 MILES N-NE OF MEIKLEJOHN PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012S 048E 18 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • HOLMES(1965) PUTS THE MINE IN SECT. 36. PROPERTY CONSIST OF 10 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Opal Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

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 Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.65756, 36.89247
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description North - Trending Dikes

Ore body information

  • General form ELONGATE POD

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone Between Two Dikes

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: DIKES CUT PALEOZOIC LIMESTONE. CORNWALL AND KLEINHAMPL, 1964 DO NOT MENTION DIKES - ORE IS IN FLUORSPAR CANYON FM - DEV - DOLO

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1908
Discoverer J. B. Kiernan And A. A. Turner

Mining district

District name Fluorine District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Boyd Endsley Mining Co.
    First year 1956
  • Type Owner
    Owner Paul Mix

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL PRODUCTION OVER 80 FL, HOLMES, 1965

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO VISIBLE RESERVES (1943)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 609.6M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE SHALLOW SHAFTS, A MAIN ADIT WITH TWO SUBLEVELS, SEVERAL SHORTER ADITS, AND AN OPEN PIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE MINED ORE BODY WAS SMALL

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

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