Mine detail: Stall Quicksilver Prospect

Previously called 'Canyon Creek?'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.73571, -117.6482

Resource(M)

Primary: Mercury
Ore: Cinnabar, Mercury
Gangue: Pyrite
Orebody form: BLANKET, IRREGULAR
Discovery year: 1913

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: AS OF 1941
First production started: 1941

Geology

Host type:Rhyolite
Structure:Faults
Alteration processes:Silicification, Clay Alteration

References

MRDSM055351
DEP10103792
Reference{Deposit:: BAILEY, E.H. AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NEV. UNIV. BULL VOL. 38 NO. 5; SER. NO. 41.}{Deposit:: WILLDEN, R, 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT CO, NEV: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59.}{Deposit:: BAILEY, E. H., RYTUBA, J. J. AND JONES, R. B., 1984,UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.}{Deposit:: NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.}{Deposit:: USBM I. C. 8252, P.227, 1965}{Production:: BAILEY, E.H., AND PHONIX, D.A., 1944}
ReporterBergquist, Joel R., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)