Commodities
PrimaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model177: Hot-spring Hg
Deposit sizeS
Ore controlNw Normal Fault
Geology
Host rockDolomite · Lower Unit Of Post-Dun Glen Strata
StructureRelief Thrust (Reverse); Overturned Anticlinorium; Nw Normal Fault; Sandstone-Dolo. Contact.
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Production yearsTO 1958
Discovery year1912
Identification
Deposit ID10040479
MRDS IDM055283
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates40.1274, -118.16208
References
JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITOF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG, BULL. 89SILBERLING AND WALLACE, 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR PEAK GROUP (TRIASSIC) AND OVERLYING LOWER MESOZOIC ROCKS, HUMBOLDT RANGE, NEVADA: USGS PP 592, P. 45.JOHNSON, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. (IN PRESS)HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: USBM 1C 8252, P. 246-247USBM UNPUB DATA