The Senator Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 9,281 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 9,281 Feet (2,829 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.66694, -117.01000
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Senator Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Senator Mine
Secondary: Red Bird Toquima
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Barcelona
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: George J. Barry
Home Office: Los Angeles, Ca.
Years: 1943 -
Production
Year: 1957
Time Period: To 1957
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^20 Lb/Ton
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1925
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Toquima Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: SMALL, NARROW, DISCONTINOUS BODIES
Structure
Type: L
Description: Veins Parallel Sheeting In Granite
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Metacinnabar
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Chalcedony
Gangue: Jarosite
Gangue: Muscovite
Gangue: Quartz
Unknown: Barite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): COARSE METACINNABAR OCCURS WITH QUARTZ AND BARITE.{TWO MAIN WORKINGS: EAST // WEST
Comment (Location): AT HEAD OF NORTH FORK OF MARIPOSA CANYON
Comment (Reserve-Resource): POSSIBILITIES AT DEPTH
Comment (Development): ECON.COM: 3 MILES OF PACK TRAIL FROM END OF SHOSHONE CANYON ROAD
Comment (Geology): ORDOVICIAN (?) PHYLLITES AND LIMESTONES INTRUDED BY GRANITE AND LOCALLY OVERLAIN BY TERTIARY RHYOLITIC TUFFS AND AGGLOMERATE.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): POSSIBLY MORE ORE AS OF 1960.
Comment (Workings): SEVERAL ADITS
References
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 41, P. 136-137
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E.,1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 25.
Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
