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Red Lode Prospect

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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  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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040465
MRDS ID M055264
Record type Site
Current site name Red Lode Prospect
Alternate or previous names Linda K., Victory, Red Cap, Red Hat Claims
Related records 10296473

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.86318, 40.09323 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646
Relative position NW SLOPE OF STILLWATER RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fencemaker Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Creek Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 026N 037E 30 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NE OF FENCEMAKER CYN ROAD ON SMALL HILL.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Jarosite Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Phyllite
    Rock unit name Grass Valley
    Rock description Grass Valley
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Mudstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.86318, 40.09323
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Limestone-Shale Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1943
Discoverer Lewis Dingy And Charles Hauskins

Mining district

District name Table Mountain District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner E. J. Bottomley
    First year 1973

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW FLASKS OF MERCURY WERE PRODUCED.

Comments on the workings information

  • AREA WAS ORIGINALLY EXPLORED BY A FEW SHALLOW SHAFTS, LATER SHORT ADITS WERE EXTENDED INTO THE HILL AND MORE RECENT EXPLORATION HAS BEEN DONE IN THE SAME AREA BY BULLDOZING. MAIN OPENING IN 1981 WAS AN OPEN CUT 100 FT WIDE, 70 FT INTO HILL ON SOUTH SIDE, WHICH DUG OUT ABOUT AN OLD ADIT, SOME OF WHICH REMAINS. FOUR SHALLOWER DOZER CUTS ABOVE MAIN ONE. VERY SMALL 2-PIPE RETORT ON PROPERTY WITH SMALL PILE OF BURNT ORE.

Comments on development

  • FIRST DEVELOPED AS THE VICTORY PROSPECT BY ITS LOCATORS IN 1943-44, BUT ABANDONED WITHOUT PRODUCTION. IN 1956, CURTIS DAVIS AND C.R. CARPENTER LOCATED THE 4 LINDA K. CLAIMS APPARENTLY ON THIS GROUND AND IN 1957 THEY REPORTED PRODUCTION OF A COUPLE OF FLASKS HG. THE LINDA K. PROPERTY WAS LEASED TO UTEX URANIUM IN 1959 BUT TITLE WAS DROPPED AFTER 1960. IN 1963 THE GROUND WAS RELOCATED BY E.J. BOTTOMLY AND R.J. STORMS. FROM 1967 TO 1970 EXPLORATION AND PERHAPS SOME MINING DONE HERE BY CANYON STATE MINING CO., BUT SINCE 1957, NO PRODUCTION HAS BEEN RECORDED.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN USBM IC 8252.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J., AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA, WITH FIELD REPORT.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, NBMG BULLETIN 89, PL. 1.

  • Production

    HOLMES, 1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEDIMENTARY ROCKS ARE CONSIDERABLY SHEARED AND CONTAIN HARD BLOCKS AND LENSES OF SILICIFIED LIMESTONE AND QUARTZITE LOCALLY STAINED WITH JAROSITE AND IRON OXIDES. MAIN FRACTURES TREND NORTHERLY AND DIP EASTWARD. THE ORIGINAL MINING DONE HERE FOLLOWED A LIMESTONE-SHALE CONTACT ALONG WHICH CINNABAR OCCURRED AS COARSE CRYSTALS DISSEMINATED IN THE LIMESTONE. IN 1981, VERY LITTLE LIMESTONE OR CINNABAR WAS VISIBLE IN THE BULLDOZED EXPOSURES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-FEB-1987 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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