USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Churchill County
Cinnabar Hill Mine
Source Corroborated Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface 4 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Churchill
- Mining district
- Holy Cross District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Robinson Quicksilver Cinnabar Hill Group - Merged Record M231018
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
NW end of Barnett Hills. Mercury Alteration: Replacement Ore(s): Shear Zone
Additional documented workings
-
Shaft
— documented in 2 source records.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 4 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Diamond Field Jack Wash , 1987
- Shaft : Diamond Field Jack Wash , 1987
View individual source records (4)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
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Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field. -
Shaft
Mapped on historical USGS topographic data (Mine Shaft). Historical map features may no longer exist in the field.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Source Corroborated
Additional historical source evidence corroborates this record. This is not a member field verification of current conditions.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Operators / organizations
- A. L. Robinson, A. K. Dalby, C. M. Smith, H. C. Smith, E. Pierce, B. P. Hartman · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Cinnabar
- Alunite
View all 22 reported minerals
- Barite
- Gypsum
- Jarosite
- Kaolin
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Cinnabar
- Alunite
- Andesite
- Baryte
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- Galena
- Gypsum
- Hematite
- Jarosite
- Kaolinite
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Rhyolite
- Wad
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Type: Historical mapped physical features
Dataset: DOI 10.5066/P9TAALR6
Supports:
- mapped shaft symbols (4)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60961
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (15)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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