Senator Mine

The Senator Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 9,281 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: Senator Mine  

State:  Nevada

County:  Nye

Elevation: 9,281 Feet (2,829 Meters)

Commodity: Mercury

Lat, Long: 38.66694, -117.01000

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Senator Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Senator Mine
Secondary: Red Bird Toquima


Commodity

Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Barium-Barite


Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Barcelona


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

Not available


Workings

Type: Underground


Ownership

Owner Name: George J. Barry
Home Office: Los Angeles, Ca.
Years: 1943 -


Production

Year: 1957
Time Period: To 1957
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^20 Lb/Ton


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1925
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
Physiographic Detail: Toquima Mountains


Mineral Deposit Model

Not available


Orebody

Form: SMALL, NARROW, DISCONTINOUS BODIES


Structure

Type: L
Description: Veins Parallel Sheeting In Granite


Alterations

Not available


Rocks

Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Metacinnabar
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Chalcedony
Gangue: Jarosite
Gangue: Muscovite
Gangue: Quartz
Unknown: Barite


Comments

Comment (Deposit): COARSE METACINNABAR OCCURS WITH QUARTZ AND BARITE.{TWO MAIN WORKINGS: EAST // WEST

Comment (Location): AT HEAD OF NORTH FORK OF MARIPOSA CANYON

Comment (Reserve-Resource): POSSIBILITIES AT DEPTH

Comment (Development): ECON.COM: 3 MILES OF PACK TRAIL FROM END OF SHOSHONE CANYON ROAD

Comment (Geology): ORDOVICIAN (?) PHYLLITES AND LIMESTONES INTRUDED BY GRANITE AND LOCALLY OVERLAIN BY TERTIARY RHYOLITIC TUFFS AND AGGLOMERATE.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): POSSIBLY MORE ORE AS OF 1960.

Comment (Workings): SEVERAL ADITS


References

Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES

Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 41, P. 136-137

Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E.,1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 25.

Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA


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.