The Wild Rose Mine is a mercury mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 8,999 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: 8,999 Feet (2,743 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 37.93306, -118.30500
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Wild Rose Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Wild Rose Mine
Secondary: Mt. Montgomery
Secondary: Red Rose
Secondary: Starlight Group
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Buena Vista 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: J. E. Renfro
Years: 1943 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1916
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Comments
Comment (Deposit): CINNABAR DISSEMINATED ALONG HANGING WALL OF FAULT AND IN DAY GAUGE OF FUALT, WHICH IS IN TERTIARY RHYOLITE THAT IS LOCALLY SILICIFIED ALONG THIS NE-TRENDING FAULT.
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
Comment (Development): LARGELY EXHAUSTED BY 1918, RELOCATED AND ABANDONED SEVERAL TIMES
Comment (Workings): TWO ADITS TOTALLING 1100 FT, RAISE AND STOPE AND 2 GLORY HOLES WITH SEVERAL RAISES IN UPPER ADIT.
References
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58.
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEVADA UNIV. BULL., V. 38, NO. 5, GEOLOGY AND MINING SER. NO. 41.
Reference (Production): ROSS, D.C., 1961, TABLE 6.1
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.
