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Black Hawk 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040492
MRDS ID M055298
Record type Site
Current site name Black Hawk Mine
Alternate or previous names Mellan, Mellan and Reid
Related records 10295378

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.96755, 37.77356 (WGS84)
Elevation 1829
Relative position 5 - 1/2 MI NW OF INTERSECTION OF HWY 25 AND NYE AND LINCOLN COUNTY LINE , 98 MI SE OF TONOPAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Top(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad 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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002S 053E 13 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TO CENTER OF SECTION 13 . PROPERTY CONSIST OF 17 CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Nopah Formation
    Rock description Nopah Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cambrian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.96755, 37.77356
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne - Trending Low - Angle Fault , Sandstone-Limestone Contact

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: IN FAULT CONTACT WITH QUARTZITIC SANDSTONE - PAL (?)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1929
Production years TO 1943

Mining district

District name Queen City District (Kawich)

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mrs. Hazel Mellan
    Home office Tonopah, Nv.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 45 FT INCLINE SHAFT, SHORT DRIFTS, SMALL STOPES, AND A FEW OPEN CUTS.

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: NBMG BULL. 41, P. 154-155.

  • Deposit

    KRAL, 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 50

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 77

  • Deposit

    5) HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965 MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE US: US BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 279-280.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

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