Mine detail: King Solomon Mine

Previously called 'PetersonWillow Creek'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.6666, -116.66758

Resource(B)

Primary:	Antimony, Silver
Tertiary:	Barium-Barite, Selenium
Ore:	Stibnite
Gangue:	Barite, Calcite, Chalcedony
Orebody form:	STRINGERS, BLEBS, SMALL PODS, RADIATING CLUSTERS, SINGLE CRYSTALS
Discovery year:	1936

Production

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

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Shear Zone Striking N5w, Dipping 70w Cuts Off The Southern Vein.Shear Zone Contains Several Small Veinlets Of Quartz And Stibnite.
Alteration processes:	The Tuff Is Completely Silicified And Kaolinized. Argillized

References

MRDS	W016484
DEP	10072160
Reference	{Deposit:: LAWRENCE, E.F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 61, P. 151-153}{Deposit:: KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.}
Reporter	Weeks, Robert, La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)