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Cinnabar Hill Mine

Past Producer in Churchill 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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040576
MRDS ID M055400
Record type Site
Current site name Cinnabar Hill Mine
Alternate or previous names Robinson Quicksilver Cinnabar Hill Group - Merged Record M231018
Related records 10221789

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.58208, 39.1613 (WGS84)
Elevation 1494
Relative position 38 MI SE OF FALLON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Diamond Field Jack Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fallon(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gabbs Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015N 030E 15,16,21,22;13 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • MINE SHOWN ON TOPO SHEET CTR NE/4 SW/4 SEC. 13 PER WILLDEN AND SPEED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Jarosite Gangue
Kaolin Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement

Analytical data

Result 140 PPM HG - SAMPLE FROM MINE (WILLDEN AND SPEED)

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.58208, 39.1613
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike N 80 W N 70 E
    Dip 40N
    Width 0.3M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1938

Mining district

District name Holy Cross District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner A. L. Robinson, A. K. Dalby, C. M. Smith, H. C. Smith, E. Pierce, B. P. Hartman
    First year 1943

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • PROBABLY NO RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 21.34M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PROPERTY IS DEVELOPED BY SEVERAL SHAFTS AND ADITS ON SHEAR ZONES IN RHYOLITE TUFFS. THE SHAFT WITH THE LARGEST DUMP IS ON A CONSPICUOUS SHEET ZONE THAT TRENDS N85 DEGREES W AND DIPS 75 DEGREES N. THE ALTERED ROCK IN THE ZONE IS STAINED WITH MANGANESE AND IRON OXIDES, AND A SAMPLE OF IT CONTAINED 140 PPM MERCURY. SEVERAL OTHER PROSPECT PITS AND SHALLOW SHAFTS IN THE VICINITY ARE ON SHEARED AND ALTERED VOLCANIC ROCKS. SAMPLES OF FOUR OF THESE CONTAINED UP TO 100 PPM MERCURY (WILLDEN AND SPEED, P.75).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, 1940, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: USBM IC 7093

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN AND SPEED, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 83

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G.W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: USBM IC 8252

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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