USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Riek Property
Unconfirmed Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface 1 mapped shaft
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Fish Lake Valley District
- Development status
- Prospect
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Fl Claims, Lake Mercury Placer, L.A. Claims
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 11 T1S R35E Structure: Shear Zones Alteration: Strong Deposit: Cinnabar is disseminated in small amounts in the tuff and fills tiny seams and fractures in the sulfur. Sulfur occurs As small blebs, irregular stringers and blankets filling open …
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.
- 1 shaft symbol
- Shaft : Davis Mountain , 1963
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.
- USGS MRDS working type: Surface/Underground
- MRDS work_type documents underground workings: Surface/Underground · work_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Prospect
Operators / organizations
- Western Mercury Co. (1940'S) · Historical operator
- W. G. Weather Ford And Carl Riek Of Coaldale · Source-reported owner
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Chalcedony
- Gypsum
- Iron
- Cinnabar
- Chalcedony
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Sulfur
View all 12 reported minerals
- Chalcedony
- Gypsum
- Iron
- Cinnabar
- Chalcedony
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Mercury
- commodity:Sulfur
- Gypsum
- Native Sulphur
- Quartz
- Sulfur
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 (1)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60780
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (7)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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