The Old Timer Property is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,800 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: 4,800 Feet (1,463 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 40.37583, -117.69472
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Old Timer Property MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Old Timer Property
Secondary: Joe Group
Secondary: Oldtimer
Secondary: Coss
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Gold Banks District (Kennedy)
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Rene And Fern Amat
Years: 1973 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1940
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: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Hot-spring Hg
Orebody
Form: TABULAR/IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: L
Description: Shear And Breccia Zone
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Quartzite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SELECTED ORE SAMPLES HAVE YIELDED ASSAYS OF SEVERAL PERCENT MG, BUT THE FEW CHANNEL SAMPLES CUT UNDERGROUND BY THE- USBM ASSAYED AT LESS THAN 0.1 LB HG/TON.
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Location): UNSURVEYED SECTION
Comment (Reserve-Resource): VERY SMALL RESERVES (1943)
Comment (Development): 9 CLAIMS LOCATED IN 1941 AND EXPLORED IN 1942. NO PRODUCTION UNTIL1956.FOLLOWING DICOVERY OF HG MINERALS HERE IN 1940, COSS, DAN WOOTAN AND VERNON BELL IN 1942 EXPLORED THE PROPERTY BY -SHORT ADITS AND SURFACE CUTS BUT FAILED TO FIND ENOUGH ORE TO -JUSTIFY BUILDING A RETORT. THE AREA WAS RELOCATED AS THE JOE G-ROUP IN 1956 BY RENE AMAT. HE SOON LEASED THE GROUND TO HUMBOL-DT METALS, MANAGED BY R. R. WHITING WHO DID ONLY A LITTLE ADDI-TIONAL EXPLORATION AND RECOVERED ONLY 2 FLASKS OF MERCURY. IN -1961, A LESSEE REPORTED A PRODUCTION OF ONE FLASK, AND ALTHOUG-SOME EXPLORATION TRENCHING, DRILLING, AND UNDER GROUND WORK WA-S DONE UP UNTIL 1972, NO FURTHER PRODUCTION WAS RECORDED. ASSE-SSMENT WORK WAS DONE FOR RENE AND FERN AMAT IN 1973.
Comment (Deposit): DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS AND SMALL STRINGER OF CINNABAR OCCUR IN CALCITE VEINLETS IN BRECCIA ZONES IN LIMESTONE AND Q-UARTZITE ALONG FAULTS OF SMALL DISPLACEMENT. THE MINERALIZATIO-N IS SPREAD OVER A WIDE AREA AND LOCALLY FORMS RETORT-GRADE OR-E, BUT THE ORE SO FAR DISCOVERED HAS LACKED CONTINUITY.
Comment (Workings): IN 1956, DEVELOPMENT CONSISTED OF A 75-FT OPEN CUT WITH A SHALLOW SHAFT IN ONE END, A 50-FT OPEN CUT AND SHORT ADI-T ABOUT 2000 FT WEST OF THE SHAFT, AND SMALL CUTS AND BULLDOZE-R TRENCHES FARTHER WEST.
Comment (Geology): ROCKS IN AREA CUT BY CALCITE VEINS AND BY FAULTS OF SMALL DISPLACEMENT ALONG ZONES OF BRECCIATION.
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): JOHNSON, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. (IN PRESS)
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252
Reference (Deposit): BENSON, W. T., 1956, USBM RI 5285.
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., RYTUBA, J. J., AND JONES, R. B., UNPUBLISHED DATA ON NEVADA HG DEPOSITS, NBMG FILES.
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.
