Mine detail: Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 39.31935, -118.11679

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Lead
Secondary: Arsenic, Gold, Zinc
Tertiary: Iron, Molybdenum
Ore: Anglesite, Cerargyrite, Copper, Plumbojarosite, Vanadinite, Wulfenite
Gangue: Calcite

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Medium
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Limestone,Dolomite
Associated type:Diorite
Structure:Regional Eastward Dips
Alteration processes:Oxidation

References

MRDSM231001
DEP10043730
Reference{Deposit:: SCHRADER, F C, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON THE CARSON SINK AREA, NEVADA, 1947, NBMG FILES}{Deposit:: WILLDEN, RONALD, AND SPEED, R C, 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 83.}{Deposit:: VANDERBURG, 1940, MINING DISTRICTS IN CHURCHILL CO, US BUR MINES; REPT INC, 7093}{Deposit:: SCHILLING, 1962 B, MOLYBDENUM IN NEVADA; NEV BUR MINES REPORT 2}
ReporterFlynn, Patricia Dodd