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Scheebar Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Production statistics
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040504
MRDS ID M055310
Record type Site
Current site name Scheebar Mine
Alternate or previous names North Star, Paradise Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.81761, 38.8127 (WGS84)
Elevation 2341
Relative position ON THE NE SLOPE OF PARADISE PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Paradise Peak(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 011N 037E 16,21 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TO QUARTER CORNER. PROPERTY CONSIST OF FOUR CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SCHEELITE OCCURS WITH THE CINNABAR.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Fluorite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Feldspar Gangue
Garnet Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.81761, 38.8127
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Folding; N-Trending Shear Zones

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET, LENTICULAR BODIES, SMALL PODSVEINS, DISSEMINATIONS
    Strike NW
    Dip NE
    Thickness 3.05M
    Length 18.29M
    Width 9.14M

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE MARBLE IS OVERLAIN BY IMPURE BLUE LIMESTONE AND UNDERLAIN BY QUARTZITE, PHYLLITE, AND GREENSTONE. ; GEOL.DESC: METAMORPHIC DEPOSIT; NE TRENDING NORMAL FAULTS, NW - TRENDING ANTICLINE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1929
Discoverer James 3'Brien
Production years TO 1944

Mining district

District name Fairplay District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner James O'Brien Of Luning, And Fred Wallace Of Hawthorne, Nv.
    First year 1943

Production statistics

  • Year 1957
    Period To 1957
    Material HG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^4-10 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Trace Mercury Mercury 3162g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • PRINCIPAL PRODUCTION IN 1936 BY MERCURY MINES OF NEV

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • VERY SMALL RESERVES (1943)

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A GLORY HOLE, SMALL TRENCH, FOUR ADITS 50-250 FT IN LENGTH, TWO SHAFTS 10 FT DEEP, AND SEVERAL SURFACE CUTS.

Comments on development

  • MINOR EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT DONE IN 1943 AND IN 1966 BY MR CONRAD, WHO WAS LIVING ON THE PROPERTY AT THE LATTER DATE

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. 140-141.

  • Deposit

    VITALIANO AND CALLAGHAN, 1963, GEOLOGY OF THE PARADISE PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 250.

  • 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. 278

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit METAMORPHICS

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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