Mine detail: Bunker Hill Group

Previously called 'Henry-Olesen Lease'

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Location: Pershing County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 40.17351, -118.1943
dep_id: 10040482
mrds_id: M055286
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Mercury
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
gangue: Calcite
model: 177: Hot-spring Hg
Reporter: Gassaway, Judith S., Royse, Sue E., Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)
hrock_unit: Lower Unit Of Post-Dun Glen Strata
hrock_type: Dolomite
Structure: Relief Fault (Thrust); Synclinorium; N60w Normal Fault
disc_yr: 1928
prod_yrs: TO 1939
References:
  • Deposit:: BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41
  • Deposit:: HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252, P. 246.
  • Deposit:: WALLACE, ET AL, 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BUFFALO MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, PERSHING AND CHURCHILL COUNTIES, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 821.
  • Production:: USBM UNPUB DATA
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