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Mina Development Co. Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Antimony
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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. Ownership information
  18. Production statistics
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040295
MRDS ID M055006
Record type Site
Current site name Mina Development Co. Mine
Alternate or previous names Cinnabar King, Booth - Wardell, Seitz, Mina Mercury, Mina Merc.
Related records 10198641

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.94872, 38.37354 (WGS84)
Elevation 2280
Relative position ONE MILE NE OF CORNELIUS SPRING

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 13 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

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

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement

Analytical data

Result 7 LB HG PER TON. 50 LB HG PER FT OF WORKINGS PRODUCED. 10 - 12 LB ORE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock unit name Interbedded Volcanic Rocks
    Rock description Interbedded Volcanic Rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Dunlap Formation
    Rock description Dunlap Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.94872, 38.37354
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Cinnabar Canyon Thrust Fault ; Reg.Trends: Northerly
Type of structure Local
Structure description Oldest To Youngest: Lost Steers Thrust Fault; Ne Trending Vertical Normal Faults (During Mineralization); Keough Fault (Nw) (Post Mineralization).

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR, POD
    Strike NE
    Dip MED. TO STEEP
    Thickness 7.62M
    Length 15.24M
    Width 10.67M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Intersections

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRIASSIC SEDIMENTARY AND VOLCANIC ROCKS WERE FOLDED AND THRUST FAULTED IN EARLY JURASSIC. THESE ARE OVERLAIN AND INTRUDED BY TERT ANDESITE AND RHYOLITE. SUBSEQUENT NORMAL FAULTING. ; MAJOR.UNITS: MESOZOIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS ; GEOL.DESC: NO ORE ABOVE CINNABAR CANYON (AND LOST STEERS) THRUST FAULT, POSSIBLE BARRIER ("CAP ROCK")

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1913
Discoverer T. Pepper And C. Keough
Production years 1916-1917, 1919, 1921-1922, 1925-1931, 1933, 1935-1936, 1939-1942

Mining district

District name Pilot Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Anderson, A. J. And Spencer, L. B.
    First year 1943

Production statistics

  • Year 1957
    Period To 1957
    Material HG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^10-12 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 4969g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • INCLUDES PRODUCTION FROM LOST STEERS MINE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1524M
    Overall depth 64.01M

Comments on the workings information

  • LAST OPERATED 1942. LOWER DRIFTS FLOODED BELOW 150 FT LEVEL

Comments on development

  • 15 TON ROTARY (1943)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    PHOENIX AND CATHCART, 1951, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973 - D

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

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