Butte Quicksilver

The Butte Quicksilver is a mercury mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,840 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

Name: Butte Quicksilver  

State:  Nevada

County:  Elko

Elevation: 5,840 Feet (1,780 Meters)

Commodity: Mercury

Lat, Long: 41.1219, -116.55920

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Butte Quicksilver MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Butte Quicksilver
Secondary: Ivanhoe
Secondary: Velvet
Secondary: Clementine
Secondary: Rand
Secondary: Bowers
Secondary: Mayflower


Commodity

Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Gold


Location

State: Nevada
County: Elko


Land Status

Land ownership: Unknown
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: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
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): POSSIBLY PART OF THE IVANHOE PROPERTY (0320070966) SOME EXPLORATION WAS DONE IN 1994,95 SEE THE IVANHOE FILE. MAY ALSO BE RELATED TO VELVET, (0320071134) & CLEMENTINE (0320070488).


References

Reference (Deposit): USBM IC 8252,1965,P.236

Reference (Deposit): USBM RI 5285,1956,P.28

Reference (Deposit): NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 41,1944,P.56,PLS 1-3

Reference (Deposit): NEV BUR OF MINES BULL 54,1957,P.79


Nevada Gold

Gold Districts of Nevada

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.