Mine detail: Andies Mine

Previously called 'NBMG Sample Site 1467Mdds 1-15 ClaimsMayday and Shendell Claims and Wm and Uc Fractions'

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Location

Lat / long:

37.56024, -115.74698

Resource(B)

Primary:	Mercury
Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, Silver, Zirconium
Gangue:	Calcite, Gypsum, Jarosite, Limonite, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR , IRREGULAR , IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1919

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	TO 1955
First production started:	1955

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Alteration processes:	Kaolinization

References

MRDS	M055334
DEP	10040521
Reference	{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252}{Deposit:: TSCHANZ AND PAMPEYAN, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG. BULL. 73}{Deposit:: SMITH, P. AND BENTZ, J., 1983, FIELD EXAMINATION ON OCT 5, 1983.}{Deposit:: MELBYE, C.E., 1956, GEOLOGIC EVALUATION OF THE ANDIES MERCURY PROPERTY; NBMG DISTRICT FILE 176.}{Deposit:: MERCURY DEPOSITS IN NEVADA; UNPUBLISHED NBMG MANUSCRIPT.}{Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA}
Reporter	Gassaway, Judith S., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)