Red Bird Mine

The Red Bird Mine is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,610 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

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Site Name

Primary: Red Bird Mine
Secondary: Antelope Springs
Secondary: Dolbear
Secondary: Rowland-Young

Commodity

Primary: Mercury
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Antimony

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Antelope Springs

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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: Clarence Young
Years: 1965 -

Owner Name: Crofoot Lumber Co.
Years: 1967 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1914
Discovery Year: 1907
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: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Hot-spring Hg

Orebody

Form: PIPE

Structure

Type: R
Description: Relief Fault (Thrust) N40w ; Reg.Trends: N 40 W

Type: L
Description: Replacement In Ls Occurs Along Fractures Under Shale In Synclinal Axis

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pleistocene

Name: Basalt
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Early Jurassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Stibnite
Ore: Mercury
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Bindheimite
Gangue: Cerussite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Aragonite
Gangue: Hemimorphite

Comments

Comment (Geology): ORE BODIES WERE OF TWO TYPES. FIRST TYPE-MOST OF THE ORE WAS FORMED BY VEINLETS AND DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS OF CINNABAR IN A BODY OF CRUSHED LIMESTONE LYING BETWEEN TWO FAULTS. THE SECOND TYPE LAY IN A PIPE-LIKE BODY THAT WAS PROBABLY A PRE-EXISTING LEAD-ZINC ORE BODY. MOST OF THIS ORE WAS RUGGY AND CONTAINED MUCH PULVERULENT CINNABAR TOGETHER WITH BINDHEIMITE AND OXIDATION PRODUCTS WHICH INCLUDE LIMONITE, CERUSSITE, HEMIMORPHITE AND SB-OXIDES. DEPOSITS ARE FOLDED AND FAULTED INTO NW TRENDING RIDGES. SOUTH PART OF AREA-FANGLOMERATES; NORTH-BASALTS. ; MAJOR.UNITS: UPPER TRI - LOWER JUR SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

Comment (Deposit): THE DEPOSITS ARE MAINLY REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS OF CINNABAR IN CARBONATE AND ARE LOCALIZED BELOW THE CARBONATE-SHALE CONTACT BETWEEN STEEPLY DIPPING FAULTS. ORE BODIES ARE OF TWO TYPES. IN THE FIRST TYPE, MOST OF THE ORE WAS FORMED BY VEINLETS AND DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS OF CINNABAR IN A BODY OF CRUSHED LIMESTONE LYING BETWEEN TWO FAULTS. THE SECOND TYPE LAY IN A PIPE-LIKE BODY THAT WAS PROBABLY A PRE-EXISTING LEAD-ZINC ORE BODY. MOST OF THIS ORE WAS RUGGY AND CONTAINED MUCH PULVERULENT CINNABAR TOGETHER WITH BINDHEIMITE AND OXIDATION PRODUCTS WHICH INCLUDE LIMONITE, CERUSSITE, HEMIMORPHITE AND SB-OXIDES. DEPOSITS ARE FOLDED AND FAULTED INTO NW TRENDING RIDGES. SOUTH PART OF AREA-FANGLOMERATES, NORTH-BASALTS.

Comment (Workings): ABOUT 2000 FT OF ADITS

Comment (Location): 1 MI. NE OF JUNIPER MINE, SW 1/4 SEC. 33

Comment (Production): 1463 FL TO END OF 1943

Comment (Development): FROM 1914 TO 1960'S MINES IN THE DISTRICT WERE WORKED.

Comment (Deposit): DISCOVERED IN 1907 BUT NO RECORD OF PRODUCTION PRIOR TO 1914. THE WORKINGS CONSIST OF ABOUT 2,000 FT. OF ADITS. FROM 1914 TO 1960'S MINES IN DISTRICT WERE WORKED. THE DEPOSITS ARE MAINLY REPLACEMENT DEPOSITS OF CINNABAR IN CARBONATE AND ARE LOCALIZED BELOW THE CARBONATE-SHALE CONTACT BETWEEN STEEPLY DIPPING FAULTS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 89

Reference (Deposit): BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41, P. 167-168

Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, F.C., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 61, P. 167

Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA; USBM 1C 8252, P. 250

Reference (Deposit): 1955 DIREXPL DME

Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA

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.