The Black Hawk Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,699 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,699 Feet (1,737 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 37.77278, -115.96444
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Black Hawk Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Black Hawk Mine
Secondary: Mellan Mine
Secondary: Mellan and Reid Mine
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Queen City District-Also Known As Black Hawk District
Land Status
Land ownership: Military Reservation
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: Mellan, Mrs. Hazel
Home Office: P.O.Box 766, Fallon, Nv
Years: 1951 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year Last Production: 1941
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: Quinn Canyon Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Hot-spring Hg
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Strong Alteration Of Andesite
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Comments
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF VERTICAL SHAFT ABOUT 100 FT DEEP WITH ADITS ON 2 LEVELS, AND SEVERAL CONNECTED STOPES AND RAISES PLUS 2 EXPLORATION PITS, SMALL STOPES; 45-FT INCLINED SHAFT, SHALLOW TRENCHES, OPEN CUTS
Comment (Deposit): CINNABAR OCCURS ERRATICALLY ALONG SHEARS IN HIGHLY ALTERED ANDESITE AS THIN VEINLETS, ISOLATED BUNCHES AND IRREGULAR DISSEMINATIONS.
Comment (Location): CONSISTS OF 17 CLAIMS ALONG S END OF QUINN CANYON MOUNTAINS
Comment (Production): AT END OF 1943, MINE HAD YIELDED 68 FLASKS OF MERCURY
Comment (Development): MINE WAS WORKED 1930-1935. SPORADIC ACTIVITY IN 1936-1943 AND 1955-1957 WAS UNPRODUCTIVE
References
Reference (Production): BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1959, PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF BLACK HAWK MERCURY MINE, NYE CO., NV; UNPUB. REPORT NBMG.
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG GEOLOGY AND MINING SERIES NO. 41, P. 154-155
Reference (Deposit): CORNWALL, H.R., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE CO.: NBMG BULL 77
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 92
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.
