Pershing Mine

The Pershing Mine is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,459 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Pershing Mine
Secondary: Lovelock Quicksilver
Secondary: Adamson Property

Commodity

Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Antimony

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Antelope Springs

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

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: United Mercury Corp.
Years: 1965 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1916
Discovery Year: 1912
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: TABULAR

Structure

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

Type: L
Description: Nw Normal Fault; Overturned Anticlinorium

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification

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: Late Jurassic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: YIELD 57 LB HG/FT.
Analytical Data: 4 LB/TON HG

Materials

Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Metacinnabar
Ore: Mercury
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Dolomite
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Ankerite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Galena
Gangue: Stibnite
Gangue: Sphalerite

Comments

Comment (Reserve-Resource): ESTIMATED RESERVES FOR 3000 FL (1942)

Comment (Deposit): DISCOVERED IN 1912. MINING BEGAN 1916. PRODUCTION YEARS 1916-17, 1928-30, 1942-44, 1946. THE MINE EXPLORES PARTS OF TWO NARROW NORTH WESTERLY TRENDING ESCHALON RIDGES ABOUT 2 MILES LONG. LARGEST PRODUCER IN DISTRICT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Comment (Location): SEC. 8, SW 1/4 SEC. 9; N 1/2 SEC. 16; UTM TAKEN AT MAIN ADIT SEC. 8.

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS AS OF 1949. LAST OPERATED 1958.

Comment (Development): PRODUCTION YEARS 1916-17, 1928-30, 1942-44, 1946

Comment (Deposit): TWO NARROW ECHELON RIDGES ARE FORMED BY CARBONATES CUT BY DIABASE DIKES. THE STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS CONSIST OF SHALE OVERLAIN BY BLACK SANDSTONE, OVERLAIN BY THIN LAYER OF BUFF SANDSTONE, OVERLAIN BY CONGLOMERATIC DOLOMITE. THE BUFF SANDSTONE LAYER IS FOLLOWED AS A "KEY BED" IN THE UNDERGROUND MINING. MOST OF THE ORE BODIES OCCUR WHERE CINNABAR FILLS NUMEROUS IRREGULAR FRACTURES OR AS DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS IN THE UNBROKEN ROCK. DEPOSITS ARE FOLDED AND FAULTED INTO NW TRENDING RIDGES. SOUTH PART OF AREA-FANGLOMERATE; NORTH PART-BASALTS.

Comment (Geology): CARBONATES CUT BY DIABASE DIKES. STRATIGRAPHIC UNIT CONSISTS OF SHALE OVERLAIN BY BLACK SANDSTONE, OVERLAIN BY THIN LAYER OF BUFF SANDSTONE, OVERLAIN BY CONGLOMERATIC DOLOMITE. THE BUFF SANDSTONE LAYER IS FOLLOWED AS A "KEY BED" IN THE UNDERGROUND MINING. MOST OF THE ORE BODIES OCCUR WHERE CINNABAR FILLS NUMEROUS IRREGULAR FRACTURES OR AS DISSEMINATED CRYSTALS IN THE UNBROKEN ROCK. DEPOSITS ARE FOLDED AND FAULTED INTO NW TRENDING RIDGES. SOUTH PART OF AREA-FANGLOMERATE; NORTH PART-BASALTS. ; GEOL.DESC: CARBONATES CUT BY DIABASE DIKES ; MAJOR.UNITS: UPPER TRIASSIC - LOWER JURASSIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS

References

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. 249-250.

Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA

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. 164

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.