Old Timer Property

The Old Timer Property is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,800 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

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

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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.