Mine detail: Nevada Mercury Mine

Previously called 'Shoshone QuicksilverNevada Cinnabar Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 38.91381, -117.55455

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Mercury
Ore: Gold, Cinnabar
Gangue: Chalcedony, Clay
Orebody form: tabular
Discovery year: 1907

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Tuff,Rhyolite
Associated rock:Toiyabe quartz latite, Oddie Rhyolite
Associated type:Diabase,Andesite,Quartz Latite,Rhyolite
Structure:Regional structural trens in the Shoshone Mountains are northerly., Rocks are cut by NW-trending faults.
Alteration processes:Argillzation and silicificationof host rocks are common.

References

MRDSM055038
DEP10310478
Reference{Deposit:: Bailey, E. H., U. S. Geol. 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.}{Deposit:: NBMG MI-94 through MI-02.}{Deposit:: Ione Valley Land Status, 1978}{Deposit:: Amer. Mines (2001), 2000.}{Deposit:: Denver Mining Record, 9/7/94}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.