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Fallini Property

Occurrence in Nye 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040491
MRDS ID M055297
Record type Site
Current site name Fallini Property
Alternate or previous names Mercury No. 1 and No. 2, Mercury Group
Related records 10295349

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.96977, 37.78717 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 6 MI NW OF INTERSECTION OF HWY 25 AND NYE AND LINCOLN COUNTY LINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Black Top(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Timpahute Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hot Creek-Railroad Valleys(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002S 053E 12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX. ONE MILE NORTH OF BLACK HAWK MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CINNABAR OCCURS AS NUGGETS AND COATINGS ON LIMESTONE AND QUARTZ GRAVEL WITHIN CREVICES IN A LIMESTONE CAVE ; GEOL.DESC: BAILEY AND PHOENIX REPORT CINNABAR IN LIMESTONE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Queen City District (Kawich)

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Fallini Brothers

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41

  • Deposit

    KRAL, 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 50

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, 1972, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 77

  • Deposit

    5) HOLMES, G.W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: USBM IC 8252

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1974 Bergquist, Joel R. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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