Mine detail: Mina Development Co. Mine

Previously called 'Cinnabar KingBooth - WardellSeitzMina MercuryMina Merc.'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.37354, -117.94872

Resource(M)

Primary:	Mercury
Tertiary:	Antimony
Ore:	Cinnabar, Stibiconite, Stibnite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR, POD
Discovery year:	1913

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1916-1917, 1919, 1921-1922, 1925-1931, 1933, 1935-1936, 1939-1942

Geology

Host rock:	Dunlap Formation
Host type:	Limestone
Associated rock:	Interbedded Volcanic Rocks
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure:	Cinnabar Canyon Thrust Fault ; Reg.Trends: Northerly, Oldest To Youngest: Lost Steers Thrust Fault; Ne Trending Vertical Normal Faults (During Mineralization); Keough Fault (Nw) (Post Mineralization).
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Replacement

References

MRDS	M055006
DEP	10040295
Reference	{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41}{Deposit:: ROSS, 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58}{Deposit:: PHOENIX AND CATHCART, 1951, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973 - D}{Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA}
Reporter	Gassaway, Judith S., Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph)