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Blue Can Mine

Past Producer in Humboldt 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040307
MRDS ID M055025
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Can Mine
Alternate or previous names Bottle Creek Mercury Mine, Tin Can
Related records 10174176

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.32016, 41.35849 (WGS84)
Elevation 1561
Relative position NW SLOPE OF HALBURG MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bottle Creek Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Jackson Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Vya(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 40N 33E 07 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Chalcedony Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Analytical data

Result ORE RAN TO 100 LB HG PER TON. YIELD OF 66 LB HG PER FT OF WORKINGS. 7 - 12 LB ORE

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Diabase Dikes
    Rock description Diabase Dikes
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite > Diabase
    Rock unit name Tuffs, Conglomerate, And Clay
    Rock description Tuffs, Conglomerate, And Clay

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.32016, 41.35849
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Jackson Mountains N10e ; Reg.Trends: Nne
Type of structure Local
Structure description N-S Trending Normal Fault

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR BODIES
    Strike N35W; VARIABLE
    Dip WEST; MODERATE TO STEEP
    Thickness 4.57M
    Length 48.77M
    Width 9.14M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 41.15M
  • General form IRREGULAR BODIES
    Strike N35W; VARIABLE
    Dip WEST; MODERATE TO STEEP

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults In Diabase Dike; Wall - Rock Adjacent To Dike

Comments on the geologic information

  • FOLDED AND FAULTED PRE - TERT. ROCKS, TERT. VOLC. AND SED. ROCKS, QUAT. VOLC. AND INTRUSIVES. STEEP FAULTS, HOT SPRINGS. ; GEOL.DESC: DIABASE DIKES CUT MIO - PLIO SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1936
Discoverer C. P. Hoskins, C. T. Smith, And T. C. Niebuhr
Year of first production 1938
Production years 1938-1942

Mining district

District name Bottle Creek District

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner J. E. Riley, H. Luce
    First year 1943
  • Type Owner
    Owner C. P. Hoskins, C. T. Smith, And T. C. Niebuhr
    First year 1943

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 41.15M

Comments on the workings information

  • CAVED, LAST OPERATED 1942.

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

    ROBERTS, ET AL, 1941, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE BOTTLE CREEK DISTRICT, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 922 - A

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, 1963, GENERAL GEOLOGY OF THE JACKSON MOUNTAINS, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 1141 - D

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ORE DEPOSITION OCCURS BELOW FAULT GOUGE IN DIABASE. DIKE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1973 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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