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Andies Mine

Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Barium-Barite, Silver, Zirconium
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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. 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. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040521
MRDS ID M055334
Record type Site
Current site name Andies Mine
Alternate or previous names Mdds 1-15 Claims, NBMG Sample Site 1467, Mayday and Shendell Claims and Wm and Uc Fractions
Related records 10222362

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.74698, 37.56024 (WGS84)
Elevation 1914
Relative position 18 MI SW OF TEM PIUTE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tempiute Mountain South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Sand Spring-Tikaboo 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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004S 055E 36,25;25 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP; TSCHANZ, 1960 SEC. 4, T. 5 S., R. 56 E. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zirconium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GRADE OF MERCURY IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO INTENSITY OF FRACTURING AND ALTERATION.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization

Analytical data

Result A FEW SAMPLES ASSAYED 15-40 LB/TON HG WITH GOOD VALUES JUST ABOVE THE LIMESTONE, BUT AVERAGE ORE GRADE WAS 2-3 LB HG/TON. SAMPLE 1467 CONTAINS 20 % FE, 7 PPM AG, 1500 PPM BA, 200 PPM ZR.

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) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.74698, 37.56024
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR , IRREGULAR , IRREGULAR
    Strike NORTHERLY . NE PREDOMINANTLY. NE PREDOMINANTLY
    Dip NEARLY FLAT-LYING
    Thickness 13.72M
    Length 91.44M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: HIGHLY FRACTURED VOLCANICS UNDERLAIN BY A LIMESTONE FORMATION; RELATIVELY FLAT LYING BEDS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1919
Discoverer C.A. Anderson
Year of first production 1955
Production years TO 1955

Mining district

District name Don Dale District (Sometimes Included In Tempiute District.

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Don And Carol Williams, St. George, Ut. (Sept. Claim Owners); H.E. Brods Ky. .
    First year 1977

Production statistics

  • Year 1957
    Period To 1957
    Material HG
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^2-3 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 1129g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • HIGH GRADE STRINGERS UP TO 30 LB/TON

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ESTIMATE PROBABLY HIGH

Comments on development

  • DMEA CONTRACT RECOMMENDED DENIED IN 1957. DRILL HOLES AND EXPLORATION IN 1950'S BY MULLEN-BUCKLEY URANIUM CORP. CLAIMS CURRENTLY ACTIVE IN 1983, ASSESSMENT WORK, CORE-DRILLING, ROADS REPAIRED, LOCATION AND CORNER MARKERS REPORTED. IN 1982,ASSESSMENT WORK CONSISTED OF EXPLORATORY CUTS AND SAMPLING, ROAD REPAIRS. IN 1956, GRADE INDICATED FAVORABILITY OF OPEN-PITTING LARGE TONNAGE. ANDERSON DID NOT STAKE THE GROUND UNTIL 1954. IN 1955, AFTER LOCATING ADDITIONAL CLAIMS, ANDERSON AND HIS PARTNER, R.R. ROBINSON, LEASED THEIR PROPERTY TO J.H. SMITH AND LOWELL BONNETT. IN 1955, SMITH AND BONNETT SUBLEASED THE PROPERTY TO WESTERN MERCURY AND URANIUM CORP WHO PRODUCED ABOUT 3 FLASKS HG TO 1956. IN LATE 1955 AND EARLY 1956, THE CORDERO MINING CO EVALUATED THE PROPERTY BY SAMPLING A 140-FT TRENCH, 140-FT INCLINED ADIT, AND SINKING AND SAMPLING A 31-FT SHAFT PUT DOWN TO FOLLOW A 45-FT CHURN DRILL HOLE. LATER IN 1956, THE GROUND WAS LEASED TO THE MULLEN-BUCKLEY URANIUM CORP. WHO EMPLOYED THE
  • COLORADO EXPLORATION CO TO FURTHER EVALUATE THE PROPERTY. THE LATTER, AFTER PUTTING DOWN 67 ROTARY DRILL HOLES, WITH AN AGGREGATE LENGTH OF 4218 FT AND OBTAINING MANY ASSAYS FROM NUMEROUS PITS AND TRENCHES, REPORTED THE PRESENCE OF A THINLY-COVERED BLANKET-LIKE OREBODY CONTAINING 45,000 TONS OF PROVEN ORE AVERAGING 3.371 LB/TON, AND 24,000 TONS OF PROBABLE AND POSSIBLE ORE OF SLIGHTLY BETTER GRADE. THE TOTAL MERCURY INCLUDED IN ALL CLASSES OF THESE RESERVES ADDS UP TO A LITTLE LESS THAN 4000 FLASKS. IN 1957 THE USBM, ON THE BASIS OF 27 CHECK SAMPLES CUT TO EVALUATE A DMEA PROPOSAL, CONCLUDED THAT INDICATED AND INFERRED ORE AMOUNTED TO ABOUT HALF THIS QUANTITY, WITH AN AVERAGE GRADE OF 3.0 LB/TON. OWING TO THE UNFAVORABLE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, THIS ORE HAD NOT BEEN MINED. THE MULL EN-BUCKLEY URANIUM CORP HELD THEIR LEASE UNTIL AT LEAST 1961; THE IMPERIAL CROWN MINING CORP LEASED THE PROPERTY 1965-1966, AND IN 1967 THE LEBER MINING CO DID ADDITIONAL TESTING. IN 1971, TITLE TO THE
  • PROPERTY APPARENTLY PASSED TO H.E. BRODSKY OF PHILADELPHIA, WHO HELD IT AT LEAST UNTIL APRIL 1977.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    TSCHANZ AND PAMPEYAN, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG. BULL. 73

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. AND BENTZ, J., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION ON OCT 5, 1983.

  • Deposit

    MELBYE, C.E., 1956, GEOLOGIC EVALUATION OF THE ANDIES MERCURY PROPERTY; NBMG DISTRICT FILE 176.

  • Deposit

    MERCURY DEPOSITS IN NEVADA; UNPUBLISHED NBMG MANUSCRIPT.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AVERAGES 15 FT THICK; UP TO 40 FT OF OVERBURDEN . CINNABAR OCCURS AS SCATTERED CRYSTALS, THIN VEINCETS, AND COATINGS ON FRACTURE SURFACES IN ALTERED RHYOLITE, AND AS METACINNABAR IN SILICIFIED/OPALIZED RHYOLITE BRECCIA. MINERALIZED STRATA ARE SEPARATED BY LAYERS OF VERY LOW-GRADE OR BARREN MATERIAL.. CINNABAR OCCURS AS SCATTERED CRYSTALS, THIN VEINCETS, AND COATINGS ON FRACTURE SURFACES IN ALTERED RHYOLITE, AND AS METACINNABAR IN SILICIFIED/OPALIZED RHYOLITE BRECCIA. MINERALIZED STRATA ARE SEPARATED BY LAYERS OF VERY LOW-GRADE OR BARREN MATERIAL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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