Mine detail: Eastern Star Mine

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Location: Pershing County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.1274, -118.16208
dep_id: 10040479
mrds_id: M055283
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Cinnabar
model: 177: Hot-spring Hg
ore_ctrl: Nw Normal Fault
Reporter: Bergquist, Joel R., Royse, Sue E., Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)
hrock_unit: Lower Unit Of Post-Dun Glen Strata
hrock_type: Dolomite
Structure: Relief Thrust (Reverse); Overturned Anticlinorium; Nw Normal Fault; Sandstone-Dolo. Contact.
disc_yr: 1912
prod_yrs: TO 1958
References:
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITOF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG, BULL. 89
  • Deposit:: SILBERLING AND WALLACE, 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR PEAK GROUP (TRIASSIC) AND OVERLYING LOWER MESOZOIC ROCKS, HUMBOLDT RANGE, NEVADA: USGS PP 592, P. 45.
  • Deposit:: JOHNSON, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. (IN PRESS)
  • Deposit:: HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: USBM 1C 8252, P. 246-247
  • Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA
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