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Nody Prospect

Past Producer in Nye 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. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098380
MRDS ID M042775
Record type Site
Current site name Nody Prospect
Alternate or previous names Wilson Cinnabar, Hanley Lease, Erroneously Called Finger Rock Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.96816, 38.74686 (WGS84)
Elevation 693

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Granny Goose Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 036E 07 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • SOUTH END OF A ROUNDED HILL ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Alunite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Gypsum Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sulfur Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Volcanics Are Altered, Bleached White, Locally Silicified; Argillized.

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.96816, 38.74686
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Steep Fracture Zone.

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip STEEP
    Width 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Nw-Trending Steep Fracture Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1934
Discoverer Clyde Garrett

Mining district

District name Fairplay District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • STOPE. THE CUT PROBABLY FOLLOWED (AND REMOVED) THE ADIT DESCRIBED IN 1944 AS PENETRATING BELOW A SMALL GLORY HOLE. AREA ALSO SITE OF CONSIDERABLE SHALLOW BULLDOZER STRIPPING AND ON THE HILL BEHIND THE CUT, SEVERAL DRILL HOLES HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN TO AN UNKNOWN DEPTH. OTHER SHALLOW PITS HIGHER ON THE HILL.

Comments on development

  • BY 1936, A SHAFT HAD BEEN PUT DOWN 45 FT AND A RETORT INSTALLED BY ALEC RANSOM. PROBABLY SOME MERCURY WAS RECOVERED THROUGH THE USE OF THIS RETORT, BUT THE ONLY RECORD OF PRODUCTION AT THIS TIME IS 8 FLASKS EXTRACTED FROM 1.5 TONS ORE HAULED TO THE CASTLE PEAK MINE A FEW MILES SE OF RENO. LATE IN 1936, A 20-TON PORTABLE ROTARY FURNACE WAS BROUGHT IN AND OPERATED BY H.E. GROHS, BUT HIS MERCURY PRODUCTION WAS NOT RECORDED. IN 1942 THE PROPERTY WAS LEASED BY MR. HANLEY WHO APPARENTLY FAILED TO PRODUCE, AND AFTER A PERIOD OF INACTIVITY MINING WAS AGAIN ATTEMPTED IN THE LATE 1950'S BY RAY JOHNSON AND IKE WILLIAMS IN THE MIDDLE AND LATE 1960'S, THE GROUND WAS LEASED SUCCESSIVELY BY GABBS MINING AND MILLING CO., STANDARD SLAG INC, AND H.L. AND JAMES LYNCH, NONE OF WHOM APPEAR TO HAVE RECOVERED ANY MERCURY. IN 1969, GEORGE WILSON HAULED ORE TO THE MILL NORTH OF GABBS AND LATER INSTALLED AT THE MINE A 20-FT STAINLESS STEEL FURNACE. DOUBTLESS HE PRODUCED SOME MERCURY, BUT THE QUANTITY IS NOT
  • KNOWN. SUBSEQUENTLY THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE ACTIVITY ALTHOUGH THE CLAIMS WERE RELOCATED IN 1976 BY GEORGE MOORHEN AND EARLE L. WILSON. PROSPECT IS JUST SOUTH OF AND ADJACENT TO FMC'S PARADISE PEAK GOLD DEPOSIT. 8000 FT OF HOLES WERE DRILLED IN 1969 BY THE TITANIC LEAD CO AND BASIN & RANGE EXPLORATION CO.. DRILLING DEFINED A 100-METER LONG ORE BODY THAT ASSAYED 2-23 LB/TON MERCURY AT A DEPTH OF 0-70 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    USBM I.C. 8252 P. 296

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 99B, 1984, P.

  • Deposit

    GALLAGHER, M.J., 1969, NEVADA MINES, MILLS, AND SMELTERS, IN OPERATION AS OF JULY 1, 1969; STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, CARSON CITY, NV, 19 P.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 41, 1944, P. 156-157.

  • Deposit

    NBMG BULL 50, 1951, P. 113.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINNABAR OCCURS AS 1MM CRYSTALS IN THE SILICIFIED ROCK APPARENTLY IN GREATEST ABUNDANCE ALONG A NW-FRACTURE ZONE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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