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M and M Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103787
MRDS ID M055295
Record type Site
Current site name M and M Mine
Alternate or previous names Mercury Mountain
Related records 10150546

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.45757, 38.25272 (WGS84)
Elevation 2152
Relative position 2.3 MILES SW OF LITTLE RAWHIDE MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tybo(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Warm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin 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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005N 049E 33 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • TOWNSHIP UNSURVEYED . PROPERTY CONSIST OF FOUR CLAIMS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Mercury Ore
Kaolinite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillation

Analytical data

Result THE ORE BODIES AVERAGED ABOUT 20 LB/TON HG.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.45757, 38.25272
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Joints

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike SE AND WESTERLY
    Dip STEEP AND LOW
    Thickness 7.62M
    Length 39.62M
    Width 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Along Southeast Trending Joints.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1929
Discoverer J.Y. Anderson And H. Buckley
Production years TO 1961

Mining district

District name Tybo District; Little Rawhide Mtn. Area

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner M. F. And Lorena Peterson And Others

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 152.4M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIT OF AN UPPER AND LOWER ADIT. THE LARGEST STOPE IS 130 FT BY 50 FT BY 25 FT.

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: NEVADA BUR. OF MINES, BULL. 41, P. 147-148.

  • Deposit

    QUINLIVAN, W.D. AND ROGERS, C.L., 1974, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE TYBO QUAD: USGS MAP I-821.

  • 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. 258

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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