Black Hawk Mine

The Black Hawk Mine is a mercury mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,699 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Black Hawk Mine
Secondary: Mellan Mine
Secondary: Mellan and Reid Mine

Commodity

Primary: Mercury

Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Queen City District-Also Known As Black Hawk District

Land Status

Land ownership: Military Reservation
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

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Mellan, Mrs. Hazel
Home Office: P.O.Box 766, Fallon, Nv
Years: 1951 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year Last Production: 1941
Discovery Year: 1929
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: Quinn Canyon Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Hot-spring Hg

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Strong Alteration Of Andesite

Rocks

Not available

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Cinnabar

Comments

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF VERTICAL SHAFT ABOUT 100 FT DEEP WITH ADITS ON 2 LEVELS, AND SEVERAL CONNECTED STOPES AND RAISES PLUS 2 EXPLORATION PITS, SMALL STOPES; 45-FT INCLINED SHAFT, SHALLOW TRENCHES, OPEN CUTS

Comment (Deposit): CINNABAR OCCURS ERRATICALLY ALONG SHEARS IN HIGHLY ALTERED ANDESITE AS THIN VEINLETS, ISOLATED BUNCHES AND IRREGULAR DISSEMINATIONS.

Comment (Location): CONSISTS OF 17 CLAIMS ALONG S END OF QUINN CANYON MOUNTAINS

Comment (Production): AT END OF 1943, MINE HAD YIELDED 68 FLASKS OF MERCURY

Comment (Development): MINE WAS WORKED 1930-1935. SPORADIC ACTIVITY IN 1936-1943 AND 1955-1957 WAS UNPRODUCTIVE

References

Reference (Production): BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944

Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1959, PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF BLACK HAWK MERCURY MINE, NYE CO., NV; UNPUB. REPORT NBMG.

Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG GEOLOGY AND MINING SERIES NO. 41, P. 154-155

Reference (Deposit): CORNWALL, H.R., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE CO.: NBMG BULL 77

Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 92

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.