The Silver Cloud Mine is a mercury mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,381 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,381 Feet (1,640 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 41.05333, -116.62611
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Silver Cloud Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Silver Cloud Mine
Secondary: Clipper
Secondary: Maddeford-Smith
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Ivanhoe District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Mrs. Elfrida Pangborn
Owner Name: R. O. Camozzi
Years: 1943 -
Production
Year: 1957
Time Period: To 1957
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^2-5 Lb/Ton
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1940
Discovery Year: 1931
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: BLANKET
Structure
Type: R
Description: N Trending Syncline 1500 Ft Wide
Type: L
Description: Minor Drag Folds Along Steep Normal Faults
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification; Hydrothermal Alteration
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Miocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Paleocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Metacinnabar
Gangue: Opal
Gangue: Alunite
Gangue: Chalcedony
Comments
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS AS OF 1944 WERE UNDERGROUND TO 75 FT. AND AN OPEN CUT. LAST OPERATED 1944. UNDERGROUND, ORE WAS MINED BY SLUSHER METHOD
Comment (Geology): PRE - TERTIARY QUARTZITE AND CHERT NEARLY EVERYWHERE MANTLED BY TERT. VOLCANICS. MIOCENE RHYOLITE AND ANDESITE FLOWS AND TUFF TILTED, BEVELLED, OVERLAIN BY FLAT - LYING RHYOLITIC TUFFS. ; GEOL.DESC: OPALIZED RHYOLITIC ASH OVERLIES CHALCEDONIC OBSIDIAN ; REG.COM: BLANKET DEPOSIT OCCUPIES THE WARPED TROUGH OF THE SYNCLINE
Comment (Reserve-Resource): ITEM 1 AS OF 1944.
Comment (Development): ONE 60 TON ROTARY, ONE 40 TON ROTARY (1943)
Comment (Deposit): BLANKET DEPOSIT OCCUPIES 1500 FT WIDE N - TRENDING SYNCLINE
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): GRANGER, ET AL, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 54
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252
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.
