Allen Mine

Past Producer in Mineral county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
Sections on this page
  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 10045328
MRDS ID M233031
Record type Site
Current site name Allen Mine
Alternate or previous names Spring

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.99122, 38.36215 (WGS84)
Elevation 2438

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Eddyville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 036E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN A SMALL CANYON WEST OF DUNLOP CANYON, 1000 FT W. OF HITT MINE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CRYSTALLINE CINNABAR

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Calcite Gangue
Clay Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Dunlap Formation
    Rock description Dunlap Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Jurassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.99122, 38.36215

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Thrust And Normal Faults
Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults-Two Thrust Faults, The Cinnabar Canyon And Lost Steers Thrusts

Ore body information

  • General form LINEAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Faults-Adits Explore Nw-Trending Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • CINNABAR IS ASSOCIATED WITH CALCITE, PYRITE AND CLAY LOCALLIZED ALONG FAULTS IN SANDSTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1919
Discoverer E. Allen
Year of last production 1943

Mining district

District name Pilot Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Allen, E. (Estate Of)
    Home office Mina, Nevada

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • TWO ADITS TOTALLING ABOUT 500 FT OF WORKINGS, WITH DRIFTS, CROSSCUTS AND STOPES. THE EASTERLY ADIT EXPLORES A STEEP NORTHWEST-TRENDING FAULT ZONE ALONG WHICH A STOPE EXTENDS TO THE SURFACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEV. UNIV., V. 38, NO. 5, GEOLOGY AND MINING SER. NO 41.

  • Deposit

    PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, J.B., 1952, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: U.S.G.S. BULL. 973-D, P. 143-171.

  • Production

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, TABLE 6.4; PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, J.B., 1952, P. 146

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE ORE BODIES WERE LOCALIZED AT THE INTERSECTION OF TWO NORMAL FAULTS AND OCCURRED AS SMALLER BODIES ALONG THE MAIN FAULT, WHICH TRENDS N 30DEG W.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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