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Horse Canyon 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. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040493
MRDS ID M055299
Record type Site
Current site name Horse Canyon Mine
Alternate or previous names Magee Mercury, Inc., Lida Grp, Lucile Grp, Gabbs Dugan Property 1960
Related records 10149843

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.29036, 38.61243 (WGS84)
Elevation 2240
Relative position IN HORSE CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Peavine Ranch(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 009N 042E 08,09 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LIDA GRP WEST OF MAIN CANYON; LUCILE GRP TO EAST; PROPERTY CONSIST OF 11 CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Leaching

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 Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Esmeralda Formation
    Rock description Esmeralda Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.29036, 38.61243
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Golconda Thrust Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description Deformation Of Host Rocks

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLETS, COATINGS, DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Deposits Lie Within And Adjacent To A Broad, Major, West-Northwest Trending Fault Zone.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, P. 156: "THE OLDEST ROCKS (THE ORE BEARING ROCKS) OF THE AREA ARE PALEOZOIC (?) THIN - BEDDED CONTORTED AND BROKEN BEDS OF LIMESTONE, SHALE, AND CHERT CONGLOMERATE." UNCONFORMABLY OVERLYING THE SEDIMENTS IS A 75 FT BED OF ANDESITIC TUFF; A GLASSY RHYOLITE FLOW OVERLIES THE TUFF. ROCKS LISTED ABOVE FROM FERGUSON AND CATHCART USING BAILEY'S LOCATION

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1937
Discoverer Charles J. Pearce, C.A. And J.C. Humphrey, And E.E. Seyler.
Production years 1942-1961

Mining district

District name Jett District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Gabbs Exploration Co. Black River Mining Co.,Ltd.
    First year 1960
    Last year 1965
  • Type Owner
    Owner Northlode Exploration Co.
    Home office Vancouver, B.C.

Comments on the production information

  • PRIOR TO 1941, PRODUCTION HAD BEEN 23 FLASKS. MOST PRODUCTION WAS IN WWII AND IN 1950'S AND 1960'S DURING PERIODS OF HIGH PRICES AND DEMAND. PRIOR TO 1941,A LITTLE HG WAS PRODUCED FROM RETORTS, BUT IN 1942, A 20-TON ROTARY FURNACE WAS INSTALLED AND OPERATED BY MAGEE MINING INC.- DISMANTLED IN 1943.

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 325 FT ADIT WITH A RAISE TO A PIT, AND NUMEROUS OPEN CUTS.

Comments on development

  • GABBS EXPLORATION CO. BEGAN FURNACE-TREATING CINNABAR ORE AT THE DUGAN PROPERTY IN HORSE CANYON IN 1960, EMPLOYING 7 MEN.

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. 155-156.

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON AND CATHCART, 1954, GEOLOGY OF THE ROUND MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ 40

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U. S.: U. S. BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 278-279.

  • Deposit

    CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, SEPT. 1960, P.24.

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BRECCIATED SHEARED ZONES
Deposit Discovery Year: 1937-38

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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