Mine detail: Nevada Cinnabar Mine

Previously called 'Shoshone Quicksilver'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.91381, -117.55455

Resource(M)

Primary:	Mercury
Ore:	Cinnabar
Gangue:	Chalcedony, Clay
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1907

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1909-1910, 1914-1918, 1920, 1927-1930, 1935-1938, 1940, 1943-1945

Geology

Host rock:	Toyabe Quartz Latite, Dacite;Oddie Rhyolite
Host type:	Tuff
Associated rock:	Toyabe Quartz Latite;Oddie Rhyolite
Associated type:	Diabase,Rhyolite,Andesite
Structure:	Shoshone Mountains ; Reg.Trends: Northerly, Nw Trending Fault
Tectonic:	Basin And Range
Alteration processes:	Argillic, Silicification

References

MRDS	M055038
DEP	10040323
Reference	{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: BAILEY, E.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 41, P. 151-152.}{Deposit:: VITALIANO, 1963, CENOZOIC GEOLOGY AND SECTIONS OF THE IONE QUADRANGLE, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS MAP MF - 255.}{Deposit:: GALLAGHER, 1967, NEVADA MINES, MILLS, AND SMELTERS - IN OPERATION AS OF JULY 1, 1967: STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, CARSON CITY, NEVADA.}{Deposit:: HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U.S.: U.S. BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 254-255.}{Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA}
Reporter	Gassaway, Judith S., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)