Mine detail: Mercur Prospect #6

Previously called ''

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long: 40.33133, -112.21302

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Mercury, Silver, Arsenic, Iron
Tertiary: Antimony
Ore: Cinnabar, Limonite, Orpiment, Pyrite, Realgar, Stibnite
Gangue: Calcite, Quartz, Sericite
Orebody form: IRREGULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host rock:Great Blue Limestone
Host type:Limestone
Structure:Basin And Range, Fractures And Fissures
Tectonic:Sevier Orogenic Belt
Alteration processes:Dolomitization And Silicification

References

MRDSD008534
DEP10012697
Reference{Deposit:: BISSELL,H.J., ET. AL., 1959, GUIDEBOOK TO THE GEOLOGY OF UTAH, NO.14, UT. GEOL. SOC.:U.G.M.S. BULL.14,262P.}{Deposit:: GILLULY,J., 1932, GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE STOCKTON AND FAIRFIELD QUADRANGLES:U.S.G.S. PROF. PA.173,167P.}{Deposit:: BUTTLER,B.S., ET. AL., 1920, THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH:U.S.G.S. PROF. PA. 111, 672P.}{Deposit:: SPURR, J.E., 1895, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE MERCUR MINING DISTRICT, UTAH:U.S.G.S. 16TH. ANN. REPT., PT.2, 454P.}
ReporterMohammad, Hasan