The Nevada Cinnabar Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,799 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 7,799 Feet (2,377 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.91389, -117.55361
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Nevada Cinnabar Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Nevada Cinnabar Mine
Secondary: Shoshone Quicksilver
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Union District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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
Ownership
Owner Name: Keough And Larson Development Co.
Owner Name: Big "B" Mining Co.
Years: 1967 -
Production
Year: 1962
Time Period: To 1962
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^6-10 Lb/Ton
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1907
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: Shoshone Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Hot-spring Hg
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Shoshone Mountains ; Reg.Trends: Northerly
Type: L
Description: Nw Trending Fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Argillic, Silicification
Rocks
Name: Diabase
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Diabase
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Chalcedony
Gangue: Clay
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): ITEM 1 IS EQUAL TO 2300 FL.
Comment (Workings): (WORKINGS IN 1949) OPEN PIT. LAST OPERATED 1959. PRODUCING, DEVELOPING - 1967 . WORKINGS CONSIST OF TWO ADJOINING GLORY HOLES (275 FT X 60 FT X 40 FT; 115 FT X 40 FT X 20 FT), TWO ADITS TOTALLING 750 FT, AND NUMEROUS SHALLOW PROPECT PITS.
Comment (Location): PROPERTY CONSIST OF 15 CLAIMS.
Comment (Development): PURCHASED BY NEVADA CINNABAR CO.IN 1912; OPERATED BY LDC MINING CO 1960-1965. ACTIVE 1908-1918 WITH MINOR LESSEE ACTIVITY INTERMITTENTLY SINCE THEN.
Comment (Deposit): VEINLETS OCCUR IN TUFF
Comment (Geology): TRIASSIC SANDSTONE, SHALE, LIMESTONE, AND INTRUSIVE DIABASE IN FAULT CONTACT WITH TERTIARY ANDESITIC AGGLOMERATE AND RHYOLITIC TUFFS AND FLOWS. ; MAJOR.UNITS: TERTIARY VOLCANICS ; GEOL.DESC: TOYABE OVERLIES ODDIE RHYOLITE, MINE IS IN TOYABE QUARTZ LATITE FORMATION
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. 151-152.
Reference (Deposit): VITALIANO, 1963, CENOZOIC GEOLOGY AND SECTIONS OF THE IONE QUADRANGLE, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS MAP MF - 255.
Reference (Deposit): GALLAGHER, 1967, NEVADA MINES, MILLS, AND SMELTERS - IN OPERATION AS OF JULY 1, 1967: STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, CARSON CITY, NEVADA.
Reference (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. 254-255.
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.
