The Buckskin Mine is a mercury mine located in Esmeralda county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,779 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,779 Feet (2,371 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 37.93472, -118.28917
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Buckskin Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Buckskin Mine
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Esmeralda
District: Fish Lake Valley (White Mountain) 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
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR, PIPE
Structure
Type: L
Description: A N 75 E Shear Zone Cuts Main N 30 E Zone
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Hematite
Comments
Comment (Development): NO ACTIVITY AT TIME OF EXAMINATION IN 1982, BUT NEW CLAIM POSTS NOTED.
Comment (Deposit): FAULT ZONE IN ALTERED RHYOLITE WITH THICK BANDS OF KAOLINIZED ROCK ON EACH WALL. (SHEAR ZONE ABOUT 6 FT WIDE). CAVED ZONE ABOVE OLD ADIT EXPOSES BRECCIA-VEIN STRUCTURE ABOUT 25 FT WIDE. ROCK IN SILICIFIED BRECCIA APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN SILICIFIED, BROKEN THEN RECEMENTED WITH CHALCEDONIC QUARTZ WITH DULL HEMATITE-CINNABAR QUARTZ COATING SURFACES AND VUGS. THE BRECCIA ZONE COULD BE A PIPE ALONG STRUCTURAL INTERSECTION. CINNABAR IS ASSOCIATED WITH LATEST MINERALIZATION STAGE, AS IT COATS OPEN FRACTURES WHICH CUT SILICIFIED BRECCIA.
Comment (Workings): ADIT, TRENCHES, PAN RETORT - BUILT ABOUT 1962
Comment (Location): ABOUT 0.6 MILE NW OF GOLD HIT SITE ON TOPO MAP. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
References
Reference (Deposit): ALBERS, J.P., AND STEWART, J.H., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF ESMERALDA CO., NEV: NBMG. BULL. 78
Reference (Deposit): TINGLEY, J.V., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION OF 14 AUGUST 1982
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.
