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Redhouse Mine

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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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. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045078
MRDS ID M232735
Record type Site
Current site name Redhouse Mine
Alternate or previous names Barium Claims No. 1-5, Barum, Sanders Mine, National Lead Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.30194, 41.09833 (WGS84)
Elevation 1539
Relative position 35 MILES NE OF WINNEMUCCA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Red House Flat West(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Osgood Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 037N 041E 12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • E. PART SEC. 12; NEAR MOUTH F HOGSMEAD CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Ordovician
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Comus Formation
    Rock description Comus Formation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.30194, 41.09833
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Folding

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET
    Strike E-W
    Dip FLAT
    Thickness 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Favorable Beds, Brecciation(?)

Comments on the geologic information

  • BARITE REPLACES CARBONATE ROCKS, BUT NOT SHALE; LOCALLY BARITE REPLACES CHERT IN BRECCIATED ZONES, ACCOMPANIED BY JASPER AND QUARTZ VEINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1940
Discoverer P.V. Sanders And W.M. Pettit

Mining district

District name Potosi District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Barium Products (National Lead) Milchem Inc. ; Porter And Meissner Mining?
    First year 1980
  • Type Owner
    Owner Barium Products (National Lead) Milchem, Inc.
    First year 1980

Comments on the production information

  • REACTIVATED IN 1980 WITH EXTENSIVE PRODUCTION OF JIG-GRADE ORE BY MILCHEM, INC.
  • No longer producing as of 2012 (Miller, 2013)

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Overall length 274.32M
    Overall width 120M

Comments on the workings information

  • EXPLORATION AND MINING HAVE BEEN DONE IN AN AREA ABOUT 300 M LONG, N-S, AND 120 M WIDE, ON THE EAST SIDE OF AN ISO-LATED HILL, CONSISTING OF 2 RELATIVELY SMALL OPEN PITS AND NUM-EROUS STRIPPED AREAS, SHALLOW SHAFTS AND PITS, DRILL HOLES

Comments on development

  • ; ACTIVE IN 1980 AND IN 1981, EMPLOYING AS MANY AS 14 PERSONS, BUT APPARENTLY IDLE SINCE THAT TIME.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Production

    Miller, M., 2013, Barite, in Industrial Minerals Review 2012: Mining Engineering, v. 65, no. 7, p. 41-42.

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEV; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59

  • Deposit

    HOTZ, P.E., AND WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE OSGOOD MOUNTAINS QUADRANGLE HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEV; U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 431.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, 1981, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING-CALENDAR YEAR 1980

  • Deposit

    HORTON, R.C., 1963 AN INVENTORY OF BARITE OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES REPT 4.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA STATE INSPECTOR OFMINES, 1982, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1981.

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K. G., 1984, NBMG BULL 98, P. 79.

  • Production

    PAPKE, 1984

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ABOUT 20 ACRES MINERALIZED AREA. RELATIVELY FLAT-LYING BEDDED BARITE ABOUT 3 M THICK; IT IS LIKELY THAT ALL THE BARITE IS IN THE SAME UNIT AND TH-AT THE DIFFERENCE IN ELEVATION OF AS MUCH AS 15 M IS DUE TO FA-ULTING OF THE UNIT. CONTACTS OF THE BARITE AND THE OTHER ROCKS- ARE CONFORMABLE BUT COMMONLY UNDULATING. THE CENTRAL PART OF -THE BARITE UNIT IS A BED 0.3 M THICK CONSISTING OF NODULES OF -BARITE IN A BEDDED MATRIX THAT CONSISTS MOSTLY OF MICA. A THIN- RHYOLITIC DIKE CUTS THE BARITE IN AT LEAST ONE PLACE. THE BAR-ITE IS GENERALLY VERY THIN- TO THIN-BEDDED, MEDIUM DARK GRAY, -FETID AND FINE-GRAINED. QUARTZ IS PRESENT LOCALLY IN VEINLETS,- AND SMALL AMOUNTS OF QUARTZ AND ORGANIC MATTER ARE INTIMATELY- ASSOCIATED WITH THE BARITE. BOTH THE BARITE AND THE ADJACENT -ROCKS ARE STAINED BY IRON OXIDES.
Deposit ORIGINALLY LOCATED BY P.V. SANDERS AND W.M. PETTIT IN SEPT, 1940. IT WAS OWNED IN 1957 BY BAROID DIVISION OF NATIONAL LEAD CO; PRINCIPAL ACITIVITY WAS SURFACE EXPLORATION AND TRENCHING DONE FOR ASSESSMENT PURPOSES. LISTED AS AN ACTIVE OPEN PIT MINE IN 1980, EMPLOYING 2 PERSONS. ; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1981-02-01 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 1986-03-01 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 2013-07-17 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey no longer producing

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