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Nevada Cinnabar Mine

Past Producer in Nye 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. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Production statistics
  20. Workings at the site
  21. Links to other databases
  22. Bibliographic references
  23. General comments
  24. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040323
MRDS ID M055038
Record type Site
Current site name Nevada Cinnabar Mine
Alternate or previous names Shoshone Quicksilver
Related records 10295704, 10310478

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55455, 38.91381 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 1 MI N OF BUFFALO MTN, AT THE HEAD OF SHEEP CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ione(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern 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 012N 039E 12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF 15 CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Clay Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic, Silicification

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 Toyabe Quartz Latite;Oddie Rhyolite
    Rock description Toyabe Quartz Latite;Oddie Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Toyabe Quartz Latite, Dacite;Oddie Rhyolite
    Rock description Toyabe Quartz Latite, Dacite;Oddie Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55455, 38.91381
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Shoshone Mountains ; Reg.Trends: Northerly
Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Dip MODERATE
    Thickness 12.19M
    Length 83.82M
    Width 18.29M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Tuff Beneath Fault Gouge

Comments on the geologic information

  • TRIASSIC SANDSTONE, SHALE, LIMESTONE, AND INTRUSIVE DIABASE IN FAULT CONTACT WITH TERTIARY ANDESITIC AGGLOMERATE AND RHYOLITIC TUFFS AND FLOWS. ; MAJOR.UNITS: TERTIARY VOLCANICS ; GEOL.DESC: TOYABE OVERLIES ODDIE RHYOLITE, MINE IS IN TOYABE QUARTZ LATITE FORMATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1907
Production years 1909-1910, 1914-1918, 1920, 1927-1930, 1935-1938, 1940, 1943-1945

Mining district

District name Union District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Big "B" Mining Co.
    First year 1967
  • Type Owner
    Owner Keough And Larson Development Co.

Production statistics

  • Year 1962
    Period To 1962
    Material HG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^6-10 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 3614g/mt

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ITEM 1 IS EQUAL TO 2300 FL.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Area 20.502HA
    Length 228.6M
    Overall depth 30.48M
    Overall length 118.87M
    Overall width 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • (WORKINGS IN 1949) OPEN PIT. LAST OPERATED 1959. PRODUCING, DEVELOPING - 1967 . WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO ADJOINING GLORY HOLES (275 FT X 60 FT X 40 FT; 115 FT X 40 FT X 20 FT), TWO ADITS TOTALLING 750 FT, AND NUMEROUS SHALLOW PROPECT PITS.

Comments on development

  • PURCHASED BY NEVADA CINNABAR CO.IN 1912; OPERATED BY LDC MINING CO 1960-1965. ACTIVE 1908-1918 WITH MINOR LESSEE ACTIVITY INTERMITTENTLY SINCE THEN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 41, P. 151-152.

  • Deposit

    VITALIANO, 1963, CENOZOIC GEOLOGY AND SECTIONS OF THE IONE QUADRANGLE, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS MAP MF - 255.

  • Deposit

    GALLAGHER, 1967, NEVADA MINES, MILLS, AND SMELTERS - IN OPERATION AS OF JULY 1, 1967: STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, CARSON CITY, NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U.S.: U.S. BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 254-255.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINLETS OCCUR IN TUFF

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1982 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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