Mine detail: Hickey Mine

Previously called 'Lead-Silver MineJones Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

41.78213, -114.78478

Resource(M)

Primary:	Lead, Silver, Zinc
Secondary:	Copper, Gold
Tertiary:	Arsenic
Ore:	Argentite
Gangue:	Diopside, Epidote, Nontronite, Quartz, Sericite, Wollastonite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1887

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Quartzite,Shale,Limestone
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Granodiorite Stock With Assoc. Faults, Fractures
Alteration processes:	Oxidation, Silicification

References

MRDS	M233857
DEP	10045957
Reference	{Deposit:: SCHRADER, F.C. (1935) THE CONTACT MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA: USGS BUL. 847-A}{Deposit:: HOPE, R.A. & COATS, R.R. (1976) PRELIM. GEOLOGIC MAP OF ELKO CO., NEV: USGS OFR 76-779}{Deposit:: SCHRADER, F.C. (1912) A RECONN. OF THE JARBIDGE, CONTACT, AND ELK MT. MINING DISTRICTS, ELKO CO., NEVADA:}
Reporter	Weimer, Becky S.