Mine detail: Shoshone and Barringer

Previously called 'BarringerShoshone Property'

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Location

Lat / long:

41.1124, -116.53011

Resource(M)

Tertiary:	Mercury
Orebody form:	BLANKET
Discovery year:	1942

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Alteration processes:	Silicification (Opalite)

References

MRDS	M055238
DEP	10040449
Reference	HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 825
Reporter	Gassaway, Judith S.