Commodities
TertiaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Orebody formIRREGULAR
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar
GanguePyrite, Quartz, Stibnite
Geology
Host rockAndesite
StructureFault Zone
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10092590
MRDS IDM055243
RegionNA
Data scoreC
Coordinates41.33518, -116.5015
References
BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILESGRANGER, ET AL, 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 54HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252