| Deposit ID | 10045341 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M233047 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Mina Development Co. Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Cinnabar King, Booth Wardell, Seitz, Mina Mercury, Mina Merc. |
| Geographic coordinates: | -117.94872, 38.37354 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2256 |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Nevada | Mineral |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Diablo | 006N | 036E | Nevada |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Cinnabar | Ore |
| Barite | Gangue |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Quartz | Gangue |
| Stibiconite | Gangue |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone | ||||
| Rock unit name | Dunlap Formation | ||||
| Rock description | Dunlap Formation | ||||
| |||||
| (1) | -117.94872, 38.37354 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Cinnabar Canyon And Lost Steers Thrust Faults |
| Type of structure | Local |
| Structure description | The Northward-Dipping Lost Steers Thrust Fault, Nearly Vertical Normal Faults That Trend Sw, And Post-Mineralization Transverse Normal Faults(The Keough Fault) |
| General form | PODS, LINEAR, LENS |
|---|---|
| Width | 1.83M |
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1913 |
| Discoverer | T. Pepper And C. Keough |
| Year of last production | 1941 |
| District name | Pilot Mountains District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Anderson, A. J. And Spencer, L. B. |
| Home office | Mina, Nevada |
| First year | 1941 |
| Type of workings | Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 1524M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M233047 |
ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58.
PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, F.B., 1953, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA. USGS BULL. 973-D,P.143-171.
BAILEY, D.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEVADA UNIV. BULL., V. 38, NO5, GEOLOGY AND MNING SER. NO.41.
VANDERBURG, W.O., 1937, REONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: US BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 6941, 79P.
PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, I.B., 1952, P.146
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | PROPERTY INCLUDES A PART OF THE LOST STEERS GROUP, THE ORIGINAL MERCURY DISCOVERY IN THE DISTRICT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Deposit | CINNABAR REPLACES LIMESTONE AND OCCURS AS HIGH-GRADE PODS IN BROKEN LIMESTONE, AS CRYSTALS IN CALCITE STRINGERS CUTTING LIMESTONE, AS FILMS ON THE SLICKEN SIDEDSURFACE OF FAULT PLANES, AND AS DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS IN FAULT GOUGE. THE ORE BODIES ARE LOCALIZED ALONG THE SW-TRENDING NORMAL FAULTS THAT PREDATE MINERALIZATION AND HEADING SLIPS ADJACENT TO THESE FAULTS. THREE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TYPES OFORE BODIES ARE EXPLOTED. IN THE FIRST CINNABAR PARTLY FILLED CRACKS AND PARTLY REPLACED THE LIMESTONE; THIS TYPE WAS EXCEPTIONALLY RICH AND YIELDED MOST OF THE QUICKSILVER. IN THE SECOND TYPE, WHICH WAS LOWER IN GRADE, CINNABAR ONLY FILLED CRACKS IN THE LIMESTONE. IN THE THIRD TYPE, CINNABAR WAS CONCENTRATED IN GOUGE ALONG THE NORMAL FAULTS. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JUL-1981 | Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.) | Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology |
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