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Lost Steer 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. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040296
MRDS ID M055007
Record type Site
Current site name Lost Steer Mine
Alternate or previous names Lost Steers Group
Related records 10198531

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.9465, 38.36854 (WGS84)
Elevation 25
Relative position 0.95 MILES E-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 15 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calomel Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Stibiconite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Barite Gangue
Bornite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.9465, 38.36854
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Lost Steers (Cinnabar Canyon) Thrust Fault ; Reg.Trends: Northerly
Type of structure Local
Structure description Lost Steers Thrust Fault

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Thickness 7.62M
    Length 12.19M
    Width 9.14M
  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Veinlets Occur In Brecciated Limestone Above Shale Contact.

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: BELOW LOST STEERS THRUST FAULT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1913
Discoverer Thomas Pepper And Charles Keough
Production years 1916-1917, 1919, 1921-1922, 1934, 1941-1942

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

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION MAY ALSO BE RECORDED WITH MINA DEV. CO. MINE . UNRECORDED PRODUCTION MAY HAVE EXCEEDED 500 FL

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • VERY SMALL RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 76.2M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A GLORY HOLE (40X25X30 FT) WITH SMALL ADJOINING CROSSCUTS.

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

    HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252.

  • Deposit

    5) 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

Beyond USGS

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