Mercury King Prospect

The Mercury King Prospect is a mercury mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,001 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

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Site Name

Primary: Mercury King Prospect
Secondary: North Fork
Secondary: Red Boy
Secondary: Red Ore
Secondary: Vermillion Fraction
Secondary: Davis Quick
Secondary: Payne Quick
Secondary: Terry Quick
Secondary: Harris Quick Claims.

Commodity

Primary: Mercury

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Mount Tobin District

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: F. W. Gertz

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1941
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Hot-spring Hg

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Type: L
Description: Shear Zone

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Limonite

Comments

Comment (Development): -ITS GRADE, BUT NO REAL PRODUCTION WAS ATTEMPTED. A SMALL ROTAR-Y FURNACE PLANT INSTALLED IN THE 1970'S REMAINS VIRTUALLY UNUS-ED.

Comment (Deposit): VEINLETS, CRUSTS, AND PAINTY FILMS OF CINNABAR OCCUR LINING FRACTURES IN A SHEAR ZONE CUTTING SANDSTONE AND CONGLO-MERATE AND IN FRACTURES IN ARGILLIZED WELDED TUFF. LOCAL AREAS- ARE CRISSCROSSED WITH NARROW LIMONITE VEINS THAT APPEAR TO BE- UNRELATED TO THE MERCURY MINERALIZATION.

Comment (Location): . ON NORTH SIDE BUSHEE CANYON JUST WEST OF THE BLUEBIRD (LAST CHANCE) PROSPECT.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): PROBABLY NO RESERVES

Comment (Development): THE ORIGINAL NORTH FORK CLAIMS WERE APPARENTLY HELD ALONG WITH THE RED BOY AND RED ORE CLAIMS BY DAVIS UNTIL 1949.- BUT THE ONLY RECORD OF PRODUCTION IS 10 FLASKS REPORTED TO HA-VE BEEN RECOVERED IN 1942 BY W. L. LOW BY RETORTING AT THE MT -TOBIN FACILITY SOME SORTED ORE OBTAINED AT THE NORTH FORK PROP-ERTY. ON THE ADJACENT VERMILLION FRACTION, WILLIAM SCHULTZ IS -CREDITED WITH PRODUCING 20 FLASKS IN 1944. AFTER A LAPSE, THE -GROUND WAS RESTAKED IN 1954 AS THE 2 MERCURY KING CLAIMS BY J.- D. DAVIS AND J. H. HICKS, AND 5 MORE CLAIMS WERE ADDED TO THE- GROUP BY J. V. QUIGLEY AND INEZ BUTLER IN 1956. IN 1957 THE M-ERCURY KING GROUND WAS EXPLORED BY DRILLING UNDER TOM MOLLERIN-G, JIM WALSH, AND WALTER GERTZ. UNTIL 1959, SPORADIC EXPLORATI-ON WAS DONE AND A VERY SMALL PRODUCTION WAS RECORDED. IN 1965,- THE SAME AREA WAS RESTAKED BY W. A. DAVIS AND H. E. HARRIS AS- THE DAVIS QUICK, HARRIS QUICK, PAYNE QUICK AND TERRY QUICK CL-AIMS. FROM 1966-1969, SOME ORE WAS RETORTED HERE TO DETERMINE

Comment (Workings): A SIDEHILL BULLDOZER CUT ABOUT 150 FT LONG, HAVING IN ITS CENTRAL PART ANOTHER CUT CROSSING IT AT RIGHT ANGLES TO -FORM A CROSS-SHAPED EXCAVATION. OTHER SMALL AND UNPRODUCTIVE C-UTS EXPLORE THE HILLSIDE ABOVE AND BELOW THIS ONE. ALSO SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF ADITS AND DRIFTS CONNECTED TO A 13-FT SHAFT.

References

Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L. J., 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION OF DISTRICT

Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA

Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. (IN PRESS)

Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252

Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., RYTUBA, J. J. AND JONES, R. B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3

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

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

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.