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Bombassei Prospect

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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037810
MRDS ID M042802
Record type Site
Current site name Bombassei Prospect
Alternate or previous names Part of Smoky Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.99759, 38.65493 (WGS84)
Elevation 2987
Relative position ON RIDGE 1 MILE WSW OF SPANISH PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jefferson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Northern Big Smoky Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 044E 02 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MILE NW OF VAN NESS MINE, 0.5 MILE EAST OF SENATOR MINE JUST EAST OF MICROWAVE RADIO FACILITY ON RIDGE CREST ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Gold Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Metacinnabar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Altered Granite

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.99759, 38.65493
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shears

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1955
Discoverer J.J. Bombassei

Mining district

District name Barcelona District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Smoky Valley Mining Co.
    First year 1982

Comments on the workings information

  • 50-FT ADIT (NOW CAVED) DRIVEN N 40 E, A FEW HUNDRED FT EAST OF THESADDLE, WITH AN OPEN CUT BELOW IT. ROAD BULLDOZED FOR ACCESS AND EXPLORATION

Comments on development

  • BOMBASSEI DEVELOPED THE PROSPECT HIMSELF; NO RECORDED PRODUCTION, BUT HE IS SAID TO HAVE RECOVERED 18 FLASKS FROM ORE HAULED TO THE RETORT AT THE WILDCAT PROSPECT. AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1981, THERE WERE MORE THAN A DOZEN 5-GALLON BUCKETS OF SCREENED ORE FROM THE BOMBASSEI PROSPECT ON THE LOADING DOCK OF THE WILDCAT RETORT, AND A FEW SIMILAR BUCKETS WERE SEEN AT THE ABANDONED BOMBASSEI WORKINGS. IN 1982, THE GROUND WAS PART OF A LARGE BLOCK OF SMOKY CLAIMS HELD BY THE SMOKY VALLEY MINING CO., PROBABLY FOR THEIR GOLD POTENTIAL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., 1984, NBMG BULL 99B, PL. I.

  • Production

    BAILEY, ET AL., 1984.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: MID-1950'S
Deposit LOCALLY SHEARED GRANITE IS CUT BY SMALL VEINS OF QUARTZ. LITTLE CINNABAR OR METACINNABAR WAS SEEN AT THE PROSPECT, BUT A COMPOSITE SAMPLE OF GRABS FROM ADIT DUMP YIELDED ON PANNING SOME CINNABAR AND PROBABLY A LITTLE METACINNABAR.

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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