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Yellow Cat 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040485
MRDS ID M055289
Record type Site
Current site name Yellow Cat Mine
Alternate or previous names Golden Fleece
Related records 10246671

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55066, 38.9302 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 1/2 MI N OF MERCURY MINING CO. MINE

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 01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55066, 38.9302
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description N - Nw Trending Normal Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1930
Production years TO 1930

Mining district

District name Union District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner L. O. Warfield, John Connelly
    Home office Tonopah, Nv.
    First year 1950

Comments on the production information

  • SORTED ORE AVERAGED 37 LB/TON

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 45.72M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHALLOW SHAFT WITH 150 FT OF DRIFTS.

Comments on development

  • ACTIVE IN 1930,1942. DUMP MATERIAL WORKED IN 1962

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. 154.

  • Deposit

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

  • 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. 255

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

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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