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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