USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Humboldt County
Red Ore Mine
Source Corroborated Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface 2 mapped shafts
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Humboldt
- Mining district
- Bottle Creek District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Source Corroborated
Also known as
- Red Ore, Scossa Mine, Red Ore Frac No. 2
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 7, 18 T40N R33E Structure: Major N-Trending, Steeply Dipping Faults ; Reg.Trends: Nne Fracturing In Dike And Wall-Rock Alteration: Dikes Are Argillized; As Well As Wall Rocks Tectonics: Basin And Range Deposit: Ore deposits occur in fractured…
Additional documented workings
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Shaft
— documented in 1 source record.
USGS Historical Topographic Mine Features
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 2 shaft symbols
- Shaft : Bottle Creek , 1961
View individual source records (3)
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.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_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
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Calcite
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Mercury
- Dolerite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Tuff
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 (2)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 59634
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (8)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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