Cinnabar City Mine

The Cinnabar City Mine is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,840 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Cinnabar City Mine
Secondary: Clack
Secondary: King George Mine
Secondary: Harris
Secondary: Cinnabar King
Secondary: Herbert Hoover Claims
Secondary: Nancy and Jackie Claims 1975

Commodity

Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Antimony

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Spring Valley District

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: E. N. Horn And Charles Stackhouse; Tancor International?
Years: 1975 -

Owner Name: H. F. Honn ; Tancor International?
Years: 1943 -

Production

Year: 1962
Time Period: To 1962
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^10 Lb/Ton

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1916
Discovery Year: 1916
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Hot-spring Hg

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Type: L
Description: Louderbacks

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Replacement

Rocks

Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic

Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: YIELD OF 38 LB HG PER FT OF WORKINGS. 10 LB ORE

Materials

Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Unknown: Calomel
Unknown: Stibnite
Unknown: Mercury

Comments

Comment (Deposit): SOME RICH PODS OF ORE OCCUR. COARSE CINNABAR REPLACES VEIN CALCITE AT FAULT INTERSECTION. THE VEIN IS TERMINATED BY THE FAULT, WHICH COINCIDES WITH THE TUFF CONTACT, WHICH HAS LOCALIZED THE ORE. CINNABAR OCCURS AS FLECKS, STRINGERS, AND SMALL AGGREGATES IN CALCITE WITH VEINLETS OF CINNABAR EXTENDING INTO LIMESTONE WALLROCK. THE ONLY REALLY PRODUCTIVE ORE BODY WAS LOCALIZED IN THE CALCITE VEIN WHERE IT INTERSECTS THE OVERLYING VOLCANIC -ROCK. CINNABAR OCCURRED IN RICH PODS OR BUNCHES FORMING ORE OF- EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH GRADE, BUT LIMITED EXTENT. SOME WAS VERY C-OARSELY CRYSTALLINE, AND IF MINED IN 1980 WOULD BE SOLD AT PRE-MIUM PRICES TO THE ORIENTAL MARKET FOR MEDICINAL USE. AWAY FRO-M THE VEIN, A LITTLE ORE WAS MINED WHERE SCATTERED CINNABAR OC-CURRED DISSEMINATED IN LIMESTONE BENEATH THE VOLCANIC ROCK. SP-ARSE CINNABAR ALSO WAS SCATTERED THRU THE TUFF, AND WHILE NOT -OF ECONOMIC VALUE, IT INDICATES THE MINERALIZATION IS OF PLIOC-ENE OR LATER AGE.

Comment (Workings): (1943) WORKINGS, LAST OPERATED 1943.440-FT HAULAGE LEVEL THAT CONNECTS WITH AN INCLINED STOPE EXTENDING TO THE SURFACE ABOUT 100 FT ABOVE. OTHER SHORTER WORKINGS TAP THE SAME ORE SHOOT AT HIGHER LEVELS, AND WEST OF THE FURNACE SITE A SEPARATE ADIT WAS- DRIVEN 300 FT BUT FAILED TO FIND ANY ORE

Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: FOLDED AND FAULTED TRIASSIC LIMESTONE OVERLAIN BY PLEISTOCENE (?) BASALT

Comment (Deposit): ON GQ - 820, SHOWN AS HILLSIDE MINE, SEE HILLSIDE MINE CRIB RECORD NO. M055269 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT

Comment (Development): IT WAS FIRST DEVELOPED BY W. H. HARRIS IN 1924-1926 AND SOLD TO GEORGE S. CLACK IN 1927. IN 1928 MR. CLACK ORGANIZ-ED THE CINNABAR KING MINING CO WHICH OPERATED THE PROPERTY UNT-IL 1931, PRODUCING ABOUT 250 FLASKS OF MERCURY IN RETORTS AND -A 15-TON ROTARY FURNACE. IN 1940 THE GROUND WAS RELOCATED BY T-HE AMERICAN ALMADEN MINING CO, ALTHOUGH APPARENTLY NOT ABANDON-ED BY MR. CLACK, AND TITLE WAS ALSO CLAIMED BY THE CINNABAR CI-TY MINING CO FROM 1944-49. IN 1953, EARL SIMPSON OBTAINED A CL-EAR TITLE, AND, AS HE ALSO HELD THE NEARBY HILLSIDE MINE, BOTH- PROPERTIES WERE SUBSEQUENTLY OPERATED TOGETHER. THE ROTARY FU-RNACE AND RETORTS WERE ON THE CINNABAR CITY PROPERTY, BUT APPA-RENTLY AFTER 1953, MOST OF THE ORE CAME FROM THE HILLSIDE MINE- AND IS CREDITED IN THE RECORDS TO THAT PROPERTY. IN 1973-1975-, TANCOR INTERNATIONAL IS RECORDED AS DOING ASSESSMENT WORK ON- THE CINNABAR CITY CLAIMS.

Comment (Location): S/2 S/2 SEC. 1 - CINNABAR CITY MINE, W/2 W/2 SEC. 7 - KING GEORGE MINE

Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESERVES ARE SMALL

Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: CA. 1916; 1926

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): HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252

Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., RYTUBA, J. J. AND JONES, R. B., 1984,UNPUBLISHED DATA ON MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA

Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA

Reference (Deposit): SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO., 1964, MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY...NORTHERN NEVADA AND NORTHWESTERN UTAH - SUMMARY OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF 1955 - 1961: VOL. 1, SO. PACIFIC CO., SAN FRANCISCO, 94105

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.