The Van Ness Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 8,898 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 8,898 Feet (2,712 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.6442, -116.97830
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Van Ness Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Van Ness Mine
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Tungsten
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
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
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Workings
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Ownership
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Production
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Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Year First Production: 1928
Discovery Year: 1928
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
Mineral Deposit Model
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Orebody
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Structure
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Alterations
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
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Materials
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Comments
Comment (Deposit): DISCOVERED BY JACK AND CHARLIE HUMPHREY IN 1928; PATENTED AS SENTINEL, SENTINEL NO. 1 IN 1929 AND 1930. SENTINEL NOS. 2, 3, 4, AND 5 SURVEYED ONLY (M04696). OPERATED FIRST BY THE RAYMOND VAN NESS MINING COMPANY WHO PURCHASED PROPERTY FROM HUMPHRY IN 1923. REPORTED SCHEELITE PRODUCTION -SMALL- AT EAST END (JACK QUADE, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY, 1985).
References
Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.
Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA
Reference (Deposit): P. 133-135.
Reference (Deposit): ERVINE, WARREN, 1972, STANFORD UNIVERSITY PHD THESIS,
Reference (Deposit): BULLETIN 99B, P. 15, 46, 47, 49, 50 AND 52.
Reference (Deposit): KLEINHAMPLE & ZIONY, 1984, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY
Reference (Deposit): MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 105, P. 135.
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G.H., JR.
Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H.K., AND JINGLEY, J.V., 1988, NEVADA BUREAU OF
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 8252, 1965, P. 257, BY
Reference (Deposit): PLATES 1 AND 14 BY BAILEY AND PHOENIX.
Reference (Deposit): BY J. H. SCHILLING.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 41, 1944, P. 138,
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 65, 1963, PP. 158-159
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.
