Andies Mine

Site Name

Primary: Andies Mine
Secondary: Mdds 1-15 Claims
Secondary: NBMG Sample Site 1467
Secondary: Mayday and Shendell Claims and Wm and Uc Fractions

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Commodity

Primary: Mercury
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Zirconium

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Location

State: Nevada
County: Lincoln
District: Don Dale District (Sometimes Included In Tempiute District.

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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.

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Holdings

Not available

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Workings

Not available

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Ownership

Owner Name: Don And Carol Williams, St. George, Ut. (Sept. Claim Owners); H.E. Brods Ky. .
Years: 1977 -

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Production

Year: 1957
Time Period: To 1957
Material type: HG
Description: Cp_Grade: ^2-3 Lb/Ton

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1955
Discovery Year: 1919
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

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Physiography

Not available

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Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Hot-spring Hg

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Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR , IRREGULAR , IRREGULAR

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Structure

Not available

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Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Kaolinization

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Rocks

Not available

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Analytical Data

Analytical Data: A FEW SAMPLES ASSAYED 15-40 LB/TON HG WITH GOOD VALUES JUST ABOVE THE LIMESTONE, BUT AVERAGE ORE GRADE WAS 2-3 LB HG/TON. SAMPLE 1467 CONTAINS 20 % FE, 7 PPM AG, 1500 PPM BA, 200 PPM ZR.

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Materials

Gangue: Limonite
Gangue: Jarosite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Gypsum
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Calcite

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Comments

Comment (Reserve-Resource): ESTIMATE PROBABLY HIGH

Comment (Commodity): GRADE OF MERCURY IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO INTENSITY OF FRACTURING AND ALTERATION.

Comment (Production): HIGH GRADE STRINGERS UP TO 30 LB/TON

Comment (Development): DMEA CONTRACT RECOMMENDED DENIED IN 1957. DRILL HOLES AND EXPLORATION IN 1950'S BY MULLEN-BUCKLEY URANIUM CORP. CLAIMS CURRENTLY ACTIVE IN 1983, ASSESSMENT WORK, CORE-DRILLING, ROADS REPAIRED, LOCATION AND CORNER MARKERS REPORTED. IN 1982,ASSESSMENT WORK CONSISTED OF EXPLORATORY CUTS AND SAMPLING, ROAD REPAIRS. IN 1956, GRADE INDICATED FAVORABILITY OF OPEN-PITTING LARGE TONNAGE. ANDERSON DID NOT STAKE THE GROUND UNTIL 1954. IN 1955, AFTER LOCATING ADDITIONAL CLAIMS, ANDERSON AND HIS PARTNER, R.R. ROBINSON, LEASED THEIR PROPERTY TO J.H. SMITH AND LOWELL BONNETT. IN 1955, SMITH AND BONNETT SUBLEASED THE PROPERTY TO WESTERN MERCURY AND URANIUM CORP WHO PRODUCED ABOUT 3 FLASKS HG TO 1956. IN LATE 1955 AND EARLY 1956, THE CORDERO MINING CO EVALUATED THE PROPERTY BY SAMPLING A 140-FT TRENCH, 140-FT INCLINED ADIT, AND SINKING AND SAMPLING A 31-FT SHAFT PUT DOWN TO FOLLOW A 45-FT CHURN DRILL HOLE. LATER IN 1956, THE GROUND WAS LEASED TO THE MULLEN-BUCKLEY URANIUM CORP. WHO EMPLOYED THE

Comment (Deposit): AVERAGES 15 FT THICK; UP TO 40 FT OF OVERBURDEN . CINNABAR OCCURS AS SCATTERED CRYSTALS, THIN VEINCETS, AND COATINGS ON FRACTURE SURFACES IN ALTERED RHYOLITE, AND AS METACINNABAR IN SILICIFIED/OPALIZED RHYOLITE BRECCIA. MINERALIZED STRATA ARE SEPARATED BY LAYERS OF VERY LOW-GRADE OR BARREN MATERIAL.. CINNABAR OCCURS AS SCATTERED CRYSTALS, THIN VEINCETS, AND COATINGS ON FRACTURE SURFACES IN ALTERED RHYOLITE, AND AS METACINNABAR IN SILICIFIED/OPALIZED RHYOLITE BRECCIA. MINERALIZED STRATA ARE SEPARATED BY LAYERS OF VERY LOW-GRADE OR BARREN MATERIAL.

Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: HIGHLY FRACTURED VOLCANICS UNDERLAIN BY A LIMESTONE FORMATION; RELATIVELY FLAT LYING BEDS

Comment (Development): COLORADO EXPLORATION CO TO FURTHER EVALUATE THE PROPERTY. THE LATTER, AFTER PUTTING DOWN 67 ROTARY DRILL HOLES, WITH AN AGGREGATE LENGTH OF 4218 FT AND OBTAINING MANY ASSAYS FROM NUMEROUS PITS AND TRENCHES, REPORTED THE PRESENCE OF A THINLY-COVERED BLANKET-LIKE OREBODY CONTAINING 45,000 TONS OF PROVEN ORE AVERAGING 3.371 LB/TON, AND 24,000 TONS OF PROBABLE AND POSSIBLE ORE OF SLIGHTLY BETTER GRADE. THE TOTAL MERCURY INCLUDED IN ALL CLASSES OF THESE RESERVES ADDS UP TO A LITTLE LESS THAN 4000 FLASKS. IN 1957 THE USBM, ON THE BASIS OF 27 CHECK SAMPLES CUT TO EVALUATE A DMEA PROPOSAL, CONCLUDED THAT INDICATED AND INFERRED ORE AMOUNTED TO ABOUT HALF THIS QUANTITY, WITH AN AVERAGE GRADE OF 3.0 LB/TON. OWING TO THE UNFAVORABLE ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, THIS ORE HAD NOT BEEN MINED. THE MULL EN-BUCKLEY URANIUM CORP HELD THEIR LEASE UNTIL AT LEAST 1961; THE IMPERIAL CROWN MINING CORP LEASED THE PROPERTY 1965-1966, AND IN 1967 THE LEBER MINING CO DID ADDITIONAL TESTING. IN 1971, TITLE TO THE

Comment (Development): PROPERTY APPARENTLY PASSED TO H.E. BRODSKY OF PHILADELPHIA, WHO HELD IT AT LEAST UNTIL APRIL 1977.

Comment (Location): UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP; TSCHANZ, 1960 SEC. 4, T. 5 S., R. 56 E. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

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References

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

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

Reference (Deposit): TSCHANZ AND PAMPEYAN, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG. BULL. 73

Reference (Deposit): SMITH, P. AND BENTZ, J., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION ON OCT 5, 1983.

Reference (Deposit): MELBYE, C.E., 1956, GEOLOGIC EVALUATION OF THE ANDIES MERCURY PROPERTY; NBMG DISTRICT FILE 176.

Reference (Deposit): MERCURY DEPOSITS IN NEVADA; UNPUBLISHED NBMG MANUSCRIPT.

Reference (Production): USBM UNPUB DATA

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Nevada Gold

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