The Lucky Day Claim is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,601 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: 6,601 Feet (2,012 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 40.32194, -117.52611
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Lucky Day Claim MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lucky Day Claim
Secondary: Southernmost Part of Friday Group
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Mount Tobin District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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: K. N. Meador
Years: 1976 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1964
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Hot-spring Hg
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Local Bleaching Or Iron Staining Along Fracture Zones.
Rocks
Name: Tuff
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Tuff
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Miocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Comments
Comment (Commodity): PANNING OF A COMPOSITE SAMPLE GRABBED FROM A DOZEN PLACES IN THE BULLDOZED AREA YIELDED A FEW GRAINS OF CINNABAR.
Comment (Development): EXPLORATION DONE IN LATE 1960'S CONSISTS OF A RECTANGULAR GRID OF BULLDOZER CUTS FROM NEAR TOP OF RIDGE DOWN SOUTHERN SIDE.
Comment (Workings): RECTANGULAR GRID OF BULLDOZER CUTS
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
References
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J. AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, NBMG BULL 89, PL. I.
Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.
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.
