Mine detail: Steamboat Springs Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 39.38518, -119.75933

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury, Silica
Tertiary: Gold, Silver, Antimony
Ore: Cinnabar, Metacinnabar
Gangue: Cristobalite, Quartz, Sulfur
Orebody form: DISSEMINATED
Discovery year: 1875

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1929 - 1932, 1968
First production started: 1877

Geology

Host type:Alluvium
Associated type:Andesite

References

MRDSM055253
DEP10040460
Reference{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41}{Deposit:: THOMPSON AND WHITE, 1964, GEOLOGY OF STEAMBOAT SPRINGS AREA, WASHOE CO., NEVADA: USGS P. P. 458 A}{Deposit:: PAPKE, 1969, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF WASHOE AND STOREY COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 70}{Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA, GALLAGHER}
ReporterGassaway, Judith S.