Mine detail: Bunker Hill Group

Previously called 'Henry-Olesen Lease'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.17351, -118.1943

Resource(M)

Primary:	Mercury
Gangue:	Calcite
Discovery year:	1928

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	TO 1939

Geology

Host rock:	Lower Unit Of Post-Dun Glen Strata
Host type:	Dolomite
Structure:	Relief Fault (Thrust); Synclinorium; N60w Normal Fault

References

MRDS	M055286
DEP	10040482
Reference	{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}
Reporter	Gassaway, Judith S., Royse, Sue E., Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)