The Cardinal Mine is a mercury mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 8,671 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,671 Feet (2,643 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.36778, -117.93333
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Cardinal Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Cardinal Mine
Secondary: Harris
Secondary: Towner and Ott
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Pilot Mountains District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
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: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: K. W. Dunham
Production
Year: 1943
Time Period: To 1943
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^10 Lb/Ton
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1930
Discovery Year: 1929
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: Pilot Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENSES AND STRINGERS
Structure
Type: L
Description: Steep Fault And Bedding Shears
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 12 PER CENT CINNABAR
Analytical Data: 16 LB HG PER FT. OF WORKINGS PRODUCED
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): ORE MAY BE ALTERED MERCURIAL SULFIDE.
Comment (Location): UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS AS OF 1942. CAVED. LAST OPERATED 1942.
Comment (Geology): TRIASSIC SEDIMENTARY AND VOLCANIC ROCKS WERE FOLDED AND THRUST FAULTED IN EARLY JURASSIC. THESE ARE OVERLAIN AND INTRUDED BY TERT ANDESITE AND RHYOLITE. SUBSEQUENT NORMAL FAULTING. ; MAJOR.UNITS: MESOZOIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
References
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58
Reference (Deposit): PHOENIX AND CATHCART, 1951, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973 - D
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.
