Mine detail: Red Cloud Property

Previously called 'World Exploration Company: Red HopeLucky'

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long: 37.88771, -118.27177

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Chalcedony
Orebody form: BLANKET

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Andesite
Alteration processes:Silicification

References

MRDSM055247
DEP10040455
Reference{Deposit:: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41}{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES}{Deposit:: ALBERS AND STEWART, 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF ESMERALDA COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 78}{Deposit:: CROWDER, ET AL, 1973, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BENTON QUADRANGLE, MONO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA AND ESMERALDA AND MINERAL COUNTIES, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 1013.}
ReporterGassaway, Judith S., Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph)