The Kirby Mine is a zinc mine located in Clark county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Kirby Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Kirby Mine
Secondary: May
Commodity
Primary: Zinc
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Mercury
Tertiary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Clark
District: Goodsprings District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Calamine
Gangue: Alunite
Gangue: Galena
Gangue: Chert
Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Plumbojarosite
Gangue: Clay
Gangue: Pyromorphite
Comments
Comment (Location): SW/4 SEC 30
References
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA, NBMG BULL. 41
Reference (Deposit): HEWETT, 1931, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS, GOODSPRINGS QUAD, USGS PROF PAPER 162
Reference (Deposit): LINCOLN, F. C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO., RENO
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.
