Lucky Day Claim

The Lucky Day Claim is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,601 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

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

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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Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J. AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.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.