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
Ore:	Cinnabar
Gangue:	Barite, Pyrite, Quartz, Stibiconite
Orebody form:	PODS, LINEAR, LENS
Discovery year:	1913

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1941

Geology

Host rock:	Dunlap Formation
Host type:	Limestone
Structure:	Cinnabar Canyon And Lost Steers Thrust Faults, The Northward-Dipping Lost Steers Thrust Fault, Nearly Vertical Normal Faults That Trend Sw, And Post-Mineralization Transverse Normal Faults(The Keough Fault)
Tectonic:	Basin And Range

References

MRDS	M233047
DEP	10045341
Reference	{Deposit:: ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58.}{Deposit:: PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, F.B., 1953, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA. USGS BULL. 973-D,P.143-171.}{Deposit:: BAILEY, D.H., AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEVADA UNIV. BULL., V. 38, NO5, GEOLOGY AND MNING SER. NO.41.}{Deposit:: VANDERBURG, W.O., 1937, REONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: US BUREAU OF MINES INF. CIRC. 6941, 79P.}{Production:: PHOENIX, D.A., AND CATHCART, I.B., 1952, P.146}
Reporter	Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.)