Mine detail: Pershing Mine

Previously called 'Lovelock QuicksilverAdamson Property'

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Location: Pershing County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.13684, -118.16875
dep_id: 10040309
mrds_id: M055022
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Mercury
Trace mineral: Antimony
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Cinnabar, Mercury, Metacinnabar
gangue: Ankerite, Barite, Calcite, Dolomite, Galena, Pyrite, Quartz, Sphalerite, Stibnite
orebody_fm: TABULAR
work_type: Underground
model: 177: Hot-spring Hg
alteration: Silicification
ore_ctrl: Fractures In Dolomite, Faults Under Shale
Reporter: Bergquist, Joel R., Royse, Sue E., Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)
hrock_unit: Lower Unit Of Post-Dun Glen Strata-Dolomite
hrock_type: Dolomite
arock_unit: Diabase Dikes
arock_type: Basalt
Structure: Relief Fault (Thrust) ; Reg.Trends: N 40 W, Nw Normal Fault; Overturned Anticlinorium
tectonic: Basin And Range
Year first produced: 1916
disc_yr: 1912
prod_yrs: 1916-1917, 1928-1930, 1942-1944, 1946
discr: Chris Mattevich
References:
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 89
  • Deposit:: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41, P. 164
  • Deposit:: LAWRENCE, F.C., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 61, P. 167
  • Deposit:: HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA; USBM 1C 8252, P. 249-250.
  • Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA
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