Commodities
TertiaryMercury, Sulfur, Gypsum-Anhydrite
Commodity typeB
Deposit
Deposit typeSedimentary
Deposit sizeY
Orebody formELONGATE
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar
Other materialsGypsum, Sulfur
Geology
Host rockRhyolite
Associated rockRhyolite · Esmeralda Formation
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1868
Identification
Deposit ID10040578
MRDS IDM055403
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates37.90744, -117.66649
References
BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41ALBERS, J.P. AND STEWART, J.H., 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF ESMERALDA COUNTY, NEVADA: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 78, P. 60.SPURR, J.E., 1906, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SILVER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: US GEOL. SURV., PROF. PAPER 55, P. 157-158.LINCOLN,F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: RENO, NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO. P. 59-60.