Commodities
PrimaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Model177: Hot-spring Hg
Deposit sizeS
Geology
Host rockDolomite · Lower Unit Of Post-Dun Glen Strata
StructureRelief Fault (Thrust); Synclinorium; N60w Normal Fault
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Production yearsTO 1939
Discovery year1928
Identification
Deposit ID10040482
MRDS IDM055286
Alternate namesHenry-Olesen Lease
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates40.17351, -118.1943
References
BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252, P. 246.WALLACE, ET AL, 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BUFFALO MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, PERSHING AND CHURCHILL COUNTIES, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 821.USBM UNPUB DATA