Reward Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10104014
MRDS ID M233050
Record type Site
Current site name Reward Mine
Alternate or previous names Kane, Leighton Cinnabar, Sommerfield and Thompson

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.96705, 38.36437 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Relative position ABOUT 11 MILES SE OF MINA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eddyville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 036E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN DUNLAP CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Stibnite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Dunlap Formation
    Rock description Dunlap Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.96705, 38.36437

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Cinnabar Canyon And Lost Steers Thrust Faults

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Year of first production 1928

Mining district

District name Pilot Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Pacific Placers Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner Dallas H. Grey, Jr. And The C. A. Bonner Estate
    Home office San Francisco, Calif.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 121.92M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF TWO ADITS, ONE NORTH OF THE OTHER, ON ABOUT THE SAME LEVEL. THE SOUTHERN ADIT HAS ABOUT 350 FT OF DRIFTS AND CROSSCUTS AND A LARGE STOPETO THE SURFACE; THE NORTHERN ADIT CONTAINS ABOUT 50 FT OF WORKINGS, INCLUDING A SMALL INCLINED WINZE 20 FT DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58.

  • Deposit

    PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, F.B., 1952, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973-D, P. 143-71.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H. AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEVADA UNIV. BULL. V. 38, NO 5, GEOLOGY AND MINING SER. NO 41.

  • Production

    PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, J.B., 1952, P.146

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINNABAR OCCURS IN FAULT GOUGE, AS CRYSTALS IN VEINLETS IN SANDSTONE, AND AS DISSEMINATED GRAINS IN SANDY LIMESTONE LENS.
Deposit ON A GROUP OF 9 UNPATENTED CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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