The Horse Canyon Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,349 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: 7,349 Feet (2,240 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.6125, -117.28944
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Horse Canyon Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Horse Canyon Mine
Secondary: Magee Mercury
Secondary: Inc.
Secondary: Lida Grp
Secondary: Lucile Grp
Secondary: Gabbs Dugan Property 1960
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Jett District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Northlode Exploration Co.
Home Office: Vancouver, B.C.
Owner Name: Gabbs Exploration Co. Black River Mining Co.,Ltd.
Years: 1960 - 1965
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1937
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: Seyler Peak
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Hot-spring Hg
Orebody
Form: VEINLETS, COATINGS, DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Golconda Thrust Fault
Type: L
Description: Deformation Of Host Rocks
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Leaching
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Comments
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1937-38
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 325 FT ADIT WITH A RAISE TO A PIT, AND NUMEROUS OPEN CUTS.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, P. 156: "THE OLDEST ROCKS (THE ORE BEARING ROCKS) OF THE AREA ARE PALEOZOIC (?) THIN - BEDDED CONTORTED AND BROKEN BEDS OF LIMESTONE, SHALE, AND CHERT CONGLOMERATE." UNCONFORMABLY OVERLYING THE SEDIMENTS IS A 75 FT BED OF ANDESITIC TUFF; A GLASSY RHYOLITE FLOW OVERLIES THE TUFF. ROCKS LISTED ABOVE FROM FERGUSON AND CATHCART USING BAILEY'S LOCATION
Comment (Location): LIDA GRP WEST OF MAIN CANYON; LUCILE GRP TO EAST; PROPERTY CONSIST OF 11 CLAIMS.
Comment (Production): PRIOR TO 1941, PRODUCTION HAD BEEN 23 FLASKS. MOST PRODUCTION WAS IN WWII AND IN 1950'S AND 1960'S DURING PERIODS OF HIGH PRICES AND DEMAND. PRIOR TO 1941,A LITTLE HG WAS PRODUCED FROM RETORTS, BUT IN 1942, A 20-TON ROTARY FURNACE WAS INSTALLED AND OPERATED BY MAGEE MINING INC.- DISMANTLED IN 1943.
Comment (Development): GABBS EXPLORATION CO. BEGAN FURNACE-TREATING CINNABAR ORE AT THE DUGAN PROPERTY IN HORSE CANYON IN 1960, EMPLOYING 7 MEN.
Comment (Deposit): BRECCIATED SHEARED ZONES
References
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U. S.: U. S. BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 278-279.
Reference (Deposit): CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL, SEPT. 1960, P.24.
Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA
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. 155-156.
Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON AND CATHCART, 1954, GEOLOGY OF THE ROUND MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ 40
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.
