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Horton Mine

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Manganese
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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. 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. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040582
MRDS ID M055406
Record type Site
Current site name Horton Mine
Alternate or previous names Ricky Boy Claims 1982, NBMG Sample Site 2320.
Related records 10222187

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.60596, 40.62823 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position 1 1/2 MI. S OF SHEEP RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sheep Ranch Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 032N 039E 20,21 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR COMMON SECTIONS CORNER, UTM TAKEN AT SECTION CORNER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 2320 OF SELECT, OCHEROUS GOSSAN WITH SPARSE DISSEMINATED CINNABAR CONTAINS 20 % MG, 0.3 % CA, +1 % TI, +5000 PPM MN, 0.5 PPM AG, 200 PPM B, 700 PPM BA, 1.5 PPM BE, 150 PPM CR, 500 PPM CU, 10 PPM MO, 100 PPM NI, 30 PPM PB, 50 PPM SC, 300 PPM V, 70 PPM Y, AND 150 PPM ZR.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 178
USGS model code 27b
Deposit model name Almaden Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone
    Rock unit name Pumpernickel Formation
    Rock description Pumpernickel Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.60596, 40.62823
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • MINERALIZATION IS IN ALTERED GREENSTONE AS FINE CRYSTALS OF CINNABAR IN LIMONITIC ZONES. THE HOST ROCK CONTAINS NUMEROUS CALCITE AND QUARTZ VEINLETS. THE RICHEST ORE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CALCITE VEINLETS. CINNABAR OCCURS AS DISCRETE CRYSTALS AND ANHEDRAL AGGREGATES IN CALCITE AND IN THE HOST ROCK.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1957
Discoverer Ed Thompson And J.C. Beatty
Year of first production 1968

Mining district

District name Tobin And Sonoma Range Mining Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Jay Macdonald , Buzzy Mcdonald
    First year 1984

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT. FROM THE SOUTH CORNER OF THE CUT A 40-FT ADIT FOLLOWS A FAULT BETWEEN GREENSTONE AND TUFF; FOR 1/2 MILE SW OF MAIN PIT ARE ABOUT 6 ROTARY BULLDOZER TRENCHES UP TO 300 FT LONG, 15 FT DEEP, AND AT LEAST 2 ROTARY DRILL HOLES.

Comments on development

  • OPEN PIT MINING IN 1968 AND 1969. THE 10 RICKY BOY CLAIMS WERE LOCATEDN 1957 BY THOMPSON AND BEATTY ON THE SITE OF SOME LONG-ABANDONED PROSPECT HOLES. LITTLE WORK WAS DONE ON THE PROPERTY DURING THE YEARS OF DECLINING MERCURY PRICES. BEATTY RELOCATED THE GROUND IN 1964 AND IN THE MID-1960'S CROFOOT MINING CO. DID SOME EXPLORATORY DRILLING UNDER LEASE. IN 1967, H.A. HORTON, UNDER LEASE-OPTION, FOUND SOME GOOD ORE WHILE DOING CONTRACT BULLDOZING TO COMPLY WITH ASSESSMENT REGULATIONS AND SOON NEGOTIATED A LEASE FOR THE LIFETIME OF THE MINE. IN LATE 1967, HE LEASED A ROTARY FURNACE IN WINNEMUCCA AND BEGAN PROCESSING VERY RICH CINNABAR ORE HAULED ABOUT 30 MILES FROM THE MINE. THE RECOVERY PLANT WAS REMODELED TO ACHIEVE LARGER CAPACITY, AND OPERATED UNTIL 1969, DURING WHICH TIME ABOUT 500 FLASKS OF MERCURY WERE RECOVERED. DURING THE SAME PERIOD 1450 TONS OF LOWER GRADE ORE HAULED TO THE NEW ROTARY FURNACE PLANT OF STAR CITY MINES, LTD, IN WINNEMUCCA YIELDING ABOUT 100 FLASKS HG.
  • NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1984.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON M.G. (1977) GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF PERSHING COUNTY, NB BULLETIN 89.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J., AND JONES R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, NBMG.

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J., 27 JUL 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Production

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINNABAR OCCURS IN IRREGULAR FRACTURES FILLED WITH OCHEROUS GOSSAN IN GREENSTONE. SHALLOW UNDERGROUND WORKINGS FOLLOW A N35E 55NW FAULT ZONE WHICH FLATTENS TO NEAR HORIZONTAL NEAR THE GROUND SURFACE. GREENSTONE IS ARGILLICALLY ALTERED NEAR THE FAULT. THIS ZONE OF ARGILLIC ALTERATION MAY CONTAIN CINNABAR ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT OBSERVED. THE CINNABAR SEEN WAS IN 1-4 CM WIDE IRREGULAR, VERTICAL, TO HORIZONTAL FRACTURES AND OPEN SPACES FILLED WITH POWDERY LIMONITE. SOME BOXWORKS AFTER A SULFIDE MINERAL WERE NOTED IN A PROSPECT TRENCH NEAR THE CORNER OF SECS. 16, 17, 20, 21. RARELY, 1-3 MM QUARTZ VEINLETS OCCUR IN THE LIMONITE ZONES. THE SPARSE CINNABAR SEEN OCCURS MORE COMMONLY WITH DARK BROWN LIMONITE OR WITH THE QUARTZ VEINLETS. THE ALTERATION NOTED IN OTHER PITS IN A 1 SQ KM AREA IS ARGILLIC, WITH STRONG LIMONITE STAINING. SILICIFICATION SEEMS TO UNDERLIE THE ARGILLLIC ALTERATION AT THE PIT AT THE CORNER OF SECS. 16, 17, 20, 21. THIS SILICIFICATION IS INTENSE, COMPLETELY
Deposit REPLACING THE GREENSTONE, AND RESEMBLING THE OPALITE IN REPLACEMENT OPALITE MERCURY DEPOSITS.
Deposit THE MINE DISCOVERED IN 1967. MINING BY OPEN PIT IN 1968 AND 1969 PRODUCED 487 FLASKS OF MERCURY ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAR-1987 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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