The Scheebar Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,680 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,680 Feet (2,341 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.81278, -117.81667
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Scheebar Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Scheebar Mine
Secondary: North Star
Secondary: Paradise Mine
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Tungsten
Tertiary: Fluorine-Fluorite
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Fairplay 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: James O'Brien Of Luning, And Fred Wallace Of Hawthorne, Nv.
Years: 1943 -
Production
Year: 1957
Time Period: To 1957
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^4-10 Lb/Ton
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1929
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: Paradise Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: BLANKET, LENTICULAR BODIES, SMALL PODSVEINS, DISSEMINATIONS
Structure
Type: L
Description: Folding; N-Trending Shear Zones
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Feldspar
Comments
Comment (Location): LOCATION TO QUARTER CORNER. PROPERTY CONSIST OF FOUR CLAIMS.
Comment (Commodity): SCHEELITE OCCURS WITH THE CINNABAR.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): VERY SMALL RESERVES (1943)
Comment (Production): PRINCIPAL PRODUCTION IN 1936 BY MERCURY MINES OF NEV
Comment (Development): MINOR EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT DONE IN 1943 AND IN 1966 BY MR CONRAD, WHO WAS LIVING ON THE PROPERTY AT THE LATTER DATE
Comment (Deposit): METAMORPHICS
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A GLORY HOLE, SMALL TRENCH, FOUR ADITS 50-250 FT IN LENGTH, TWO SHAFTS 10 FT DEEP, AND SEVERAL SURFACE CUTS.
Comment (Geology): THE MARBLE IS OVERLAIN BY IMPURE BLUE LIMESTONE AND UNDERLAIN BY QUARTZITE, PHYLLITE, AND GREENSTONE. ; GEOL.DESC: METAMORPHIC DEPOSIT; NE TRENDING NORMAL FAULTS, NW - TRENDING ANTICLINE.
References
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. 140-141.
Reference (Deposit): VITALIANO AND CALLAGHAN, 1963, GEOLOGY OF THE PARADISE PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 250.
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U.S.: U.S. BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 278
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.
