Mine detail: Crawford Prospect

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Location: Pershing County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.12018, -118.15403
dep_id: 10040481
mrds_id: M055285
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Cinnabar
orebody_fm: DISSEMINATED
work_type: Surface
model: 177: Hot-spring Hg
ore_ctrl: Fault Zone; Bed Of Buff Sandstone
Reporter: Gassaway, Judith S., Royse, Sue E., Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)
hrock_unit: Lower Unit Of Post-Dun Glen Strata
hrock_type: Dolomite
Structure: Nw Structural Trend, Shear Zone
prod_yrs: TO 1940
References:
  • Deposit:: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41.
  • Deposit:: HOLMES, G.W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: USBM 1C 8252, P. 246
  • Deposit:: WALLACE, ET AL, 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BUFFALO MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, PERSHING AND CHURCHILL COUNTIES, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 821.
  • Deposit:: HOLMES, G.W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: USBM IC 8252
  • Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA
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