East Gap Ridge Mine

Past Producer in Pike county in Arkansas, United States with commodities Mercury, Antimony
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040334
MRDS ID M055052
MAS/MILS ID 51090030
Record type Site
Current site name East Gap Ridge Mine
Alternate or previous names Eastern part of Gap Ridge
Related records 10187255

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -93.73278, 34.16056 (WGS84)
Elevation 183
Relative position 4.5 MILES NNW OF MURFREESBORO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pike(county)

Arkansas(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Narrows Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Arkadelphia(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Little Rock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Missouri(hydrologic unit)

Upper Ouachita(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Red-Ouachita(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Mississippi(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Corps of Engineers(Branch)

Branch USACE(Type of land area)

USACE(Federal land areas administered by USACE)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Arkansas Pike

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
5th Principal 007S 026W 11,12 SE NE; SW NW Arkansas

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Antimony Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calomel Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Metacinnabar Ore
Stibiconite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Dickite Gangue
Goethite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Rock unit name Stanley Shale Penn. Sandstone, Shale;Gap Ridge Sandstone Member Of The Stanley Shale Penn. Sandstone
    Rock description Stanley Shale Penn. Sandstone, Shale;Gap Ridge Sandstone Member Of The Stanley Shale Penn. Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pennsylvanian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -93.73278, 34.16056

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Thrust Faults And Close Folds
Type of structure Regional
Structure description Thrust Faults, N-S Tear Faults, And Two Fold Systems ; Reg.Trends: Thrust Faults From S In Late Paleozoic

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Intersections, Sharp Folds, And Intersection Of Sandstone Beds With Main Fault Zone.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1931

Mining district

District name Arkansas Quicksilver District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Arkansas Power And Light Co.; Southern Kraft Paper Co.
  • Type Owner
    Owner J.G. Parker
    Year 1944

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 25.91M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU MINES REPT. OF INV. 4737

  • Deposit

    Gallagher, 1942, USGS BULL. 936-H

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, (PERSONAL FILES)

  • Deposit

    DIREXPL USBM IN EARLY 1940'

  • Production

    BAILEY, E.H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    Reed & Wells, 1938, USGS Bull. 886-C, p. 82-83.

  • Deposit

    Clardy, B.F., and Bush, W.V., 1976, Mercury district of southwest Arkansas: Arkansas Geological Commission Information Circular 23, 57 p.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1973-09-01 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Editor 2012-11-14 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey merged and deleted duplicate record 10187255.
Reporter 2012-05-20 Rlw U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS 0051090030 = 10187255

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.