The Harvey Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,902 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: 4,902 Feet (1,494 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 36.8925, -116.65667
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Harvey Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Harvey Mine
Secondary: Denver Cooperative Mining Corp.
Secondary: Telluride Group
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Fluorine District
Land Status
Land ownership: Federal
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/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Boyd Endsley Mining Co.
Years: 1956 -
Owner Name: Paul Mix
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1908
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Hot-spring Hg
Orebody
Form: ELONGATE POD
Structure
Type: L
Description: North - Trending Dikes
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification
Rocks
Name: Diabase
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Diabase
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Early Devonian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Chalcedony
Gangue: Opal
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): NO VISIBLE RESERVES (1943)
Comment (Production): TOTAL PRODUCTION OVER 80 FL, HOLMES, 1965
Comment (Deposit): THE MINED ORE BODY WAS SMALL
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF THREE SHALLOW SHAFTS, A MAIN ADIT WITH TWO SUBLEVELS, SEVERAL SHORTER ADITS, AND AN OPEN PIT.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: DIKES CUT PALEOZOIC LIMESTONE. CORNWALL AND KLEINHAMPL, 1964 DO NOT MENTION DIKES - ORE IS IN FLUORSPAR CANYON FM - DEV - DOLO
Comment (Location): HOLMES(1965) PUTS THE MINE IN SECT. 36. PROPERTY CONSIST OF 10 UNPATENTED CLAIMS.
References
Reference (Deposit): 5) CORNWALL AND KLEINHAMPL, 1964, GEOLOGY OF BULLFROG QUADRANGLE AND ORE DEPOSITS RELATED TO BULLFROG HILLS CALDERA, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA, AND INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: USGS P. P. 454 - J.
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: NBMG BULL. 41, P. 142-143.
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G. H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U.S.: US BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 281.
Reference (Deposit): CORNWALL AND KLEINHAMPL, 1961, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BARE MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 157.
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.
