USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Esmeralda County
Container Mine
Unconfirmed Mercury Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Esmeralda
- Mining district
- Fish Lake Valley District
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Mercury
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Sec 13 T1N R33E Structure: NE-Trending Fault And Thrust Fault Alteration: Silicification Deposit: Cinnabar occurs as small crystalline veinlets and painty coatings in brecciated zones in the silicified host rock. It seems to be concentrated along or…
Historical mapped workings
USGS historical topographic mapping. Features may no longer exist.
- 3 shaft symbols
- 12 adit symbols
View individual source records (2)
Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- 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: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Barite
- Quartz
- Cinnabar
- Baryte
- Chert
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Mercury
View all 12 reported minerals
- Barite
- Quartz
- Cinnabar
- Baryte
- Chert
- Cinnabar
- commodity:Antimony
- commodity:Mercury
- Granite
- Limestone
- Quartz
- Quartzite
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 (3)
- mapped adit symbols (12)
Historical mapped features may no longer exist.
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 60775
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (9)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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