Commodities
PrimaryMercury
SecondaryArsenic, Antimony, Silver
TertiaryZinc
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeS
WorkingsUnderground, Surface/Underground
Orebody formTABULAR
Ore controlCinnabar Deposition Controlled By Fractures. Fault Intersections, Sharp Folds, Intersection Of Sandstone Beds With Main Fault Zone.
Materials
Ore mineralsCalomel, Cinnabar, Metacinnabar, Sphalerite, Stibiconite
GangueDickite, Goethite, Pyrite, Quartz, Siderite
Other materialsStibnite
Geology
Host rockSandstone · Gap Ridge Sandstone Member Of Stanley Shale. Penn. Sandstone
StructureThrust Faults And Close Folds, Steep Regional S Dip To Carboniferous Formations. Overthrust Block Cut By Ne Tear Faults, Bedding Plane Faults, And N-S Faults With West Side Moving Relatively North, Two Types Of Small Folds Formed By E-W Compression. ; Reg.Trends: Thrust Faulting From S In Late Paleozoic.
AlterationArgillic
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1931
Identification
Deposit ID10103773
MRDS IDM055055
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates34.16056, -93.74056
References
Reed and Wells, 1938, USGS BULL. 886-CGallagher, 1942, USGS BULL. 936-HBAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILESDIREXPL U.S. BUREAU MINES, DRILLINChester, 1965, USBM IC-8252.Clardy, B.F., and Bush, W.V., 1976, Mercury district of southwest Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular 23, 57 p.USBM DATA