Mine detail: Limerick Gold Mine

Previously called 'Rochester Merger Mines'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.29212, -118.15847

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Ore:	Cerargyrite, Gold, Proustite
Gangue:	Limonite, Quartz, Sericite

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Sheared Zone
Alteration processes:	Sericitized, Oxidized

References

MRDS	M231487
DEP	10044141
Reference	{Deposit:: SCHRADER, F. C., 1914, ROCHESTER MINING DISTRICT, NEAVADA: IN USGS BULL. 580}{Deposit:: VIKRE, P. G., 1978, GEOLOGY AND SILVER MINERALIZATION OF THE ROCHESTER DISTRICT, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: PH.D. THESIS STANFORD UNIV.}{Deposit:: NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3}{Deposit:: BONHAM, H. F., JR., 1984, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION}
Reporter	Royse, Sue E., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.)