Description
D.F. Short at Nutts Crossing Sec. 28, T6S. R23W/ Crowm Cox in Sec. 1, T7S, R26W.
Commodities
PrimaryMercury
SecondaryAntimony
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeCAVITY FILLING, FRACTURE COATING, DISSEMINATED
Deposit sizeL
WorkingsSurface/Underground
Ore controlFAULT INTERSECTIONS, SHARP FOLDS, AND INTERSECTIONS OF SANDSTONE BEDS WITH MAIN FAULT ZONE ARE FAVORABLE STRUCTURES.
Materials
Ore mineralsCinnabar, Metacinnabar, Calomel, Eglestonite, Livingstonite, Mercury
GangueQuartz, Dickite, Limonite, Goethite, Hematite, Siderite, Barite, Opal, Calcite
Other materialsPyrite, Stibnite, Stibiconite, Galena
Geology
Host rockSandstone · "Gap Ridge Sandstone Member of the Stanley Shale", "Jackfork Sandstone"
StructureSTEEP 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 ALTERATION
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Production years1931-1944, intermittent but negligible since 1946
First production1931
Last production1944
Discovery year1930
Identification
Deposit ID60000974
MRDS IDM055045
Alternate namesArkansas Quicksilver District, Pike County, Pike County area
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates34.17352, -93.66441
References
BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILESClardy, B.F., and Bush, W.V., 1976, Mercury district of southwest Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular 23, 57 p.Reed, J.C., and Wells, F.G., 1938, Geology and ore deposits of the southwestern Arkansas quicksilver district: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 886-C, p. 15-90.website: http://hgms.org/Articles/ArtSmith--SouthwesternArkansasMercuryMiningDistrict.html, accessed 25-oct-2010.Bailey, E.H., 1962, Mercury in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Investigations Resource Map MR-30, 8 p. pamphlet, scale 1:3,168,000.