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Old Timer Property

Past Producer in Pershing 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  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. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040475
MRDS ID M055278
Record type Site
Current site name Old Timer Property
Alternate or previous names Joe Group, Oldtimer, Coss
Related records 10222482

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.69568, 40.37573 (WGS84)
Elevation 1463
Relative position 7 MI. S. OF GOLDBANKS QUICKSILVER MINE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Goldbanks Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Creek Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029N 038E 22,15 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue

Analytical data

Result SELECTED ORE SAMPLES HAVE YIELDED ASSAYS OF SEVERAL PERCENT MG, BUT THE FEW CHANNEL SAMPLES CUT UNDERGROUND BY THE- USBM ASSAYED AT LESS THAN 0.1 LB HG/TON.

Mineral occurrence model information

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

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear And Breccia Zone

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR/IRREGULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciated Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • ROCKS IN AREA CUT BY CALCITE VEINS AND BY FAULTS OF SMALL DISPLACEMENT ALONG ZONES OF BRECCIATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Production years TO 1960

Mining district

District name Gold Banks District (Kennedy)

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Rene And Fern Amat
    First year 1973

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • VERY SMALL RESERVES (1943)

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1956, DEVELOPMENT CONSISTED OF A 75-FT OPEN CUT WITH A SHALLOW SHAFT IN ONE END, A 50-FT OPEN CUT AND SHORT ADI-T ABOUT 2000 FT WEST OF THE SHAFT, AND SMALL CUTS AND BULLDOZE-R TRENCHES FARTHER WEST.

Comments on development

  • 9 CLAIMS LOCATED IN 1941 AND EXPLORED IN 1942. NO PRODUCTION UNTIL1956.FOLLOWING DICOVERY OF HG MINERALS HERE IN 1940, COSS, DAN WOOTAN AND VERNON BELL IN 1942 EXPLORED THE PROPERTY BY -SHORT ADITS AND SURFACE CUTS BUT FAILED TO FIND ENOUGH ORE TO -JUSTIFY BUILDING A RETORT. THE AREA WAS RELOCATED AS THE JOE G-ROUP IN 1956 BY RENE AMAT. HE SOON LEASED THE GROUND TO HUMBOL-DT METALS, MANAGED BY R. R. WHITING WHO DID ONLY A LITTLE ADDI-TIONAL EXPLORATION AND RECOVERED ONLY 2 FLASKS OF MERCURY. IN -1961, A LESSEE REPORTED A PRODUCTION OF ONE FLASK, AND ALTHOUG-SOME EXPLORATION TRENCHING, DRILLING, AND UNDER GROUND WORK WA-S DONE UP UNTIL 1972, NO FURTHER PRODUCTION WAS RECORDED. ASSE-SSMENT WORK WAS DONE FOR RENE AND FERN AMAT IN 1973.

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

    JOHNSON, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. (IN PRESS)

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BENSON, W. T., 1956, USBM RI 5285.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., RYTUBA, J. J., AND JONES, R. B., UNPUBLISHED DATA ON NEVADA HG DEPOSITS, NBMG FILES.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS AND SMALL STRINGER OF CINNABAR OCCUR IN CALCITE VEINLETS IN BRECCIA ZONES IN LIMESTONE AND Q-UARTZITE ALONG FAULTS OF SMALL DISPLACEMENT. THE MINERALIZATIO-N IS SPREAD OVER A WIDE AREA AND LOCALLY FORMS RETORT-GRADE OR-E, BUT THE ORE SO FAR DISCOVERED HAS LACKED CONTINUITY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-OCT-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-OCT-1980 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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