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Wright Prospect

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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040499
MRDS ID M055305
Record type Site
Current site name Wright Prospect
Alternate or previous names Colvin, Lettie, Lottie

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.65339, 36.9519 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position 8 MI NE OF BEATTY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 011S 048E 30 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP; LOCATION TO CENTER OF SECTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Opal Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Partially Silicified Rhyolite, Alunization

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS SHOW TO 1.4 LB/TON

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) Younger silicic ash flow tuffs
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne Trending Faults

Ore body information

  • General form PODS, LENSES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1928
Discoverer R. Curley Wright ("Death Valley Curley")

Mining district

District name Fluorine District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner J. H. Colvin And T. C. Stroud
    First year 1955

Comments on development

  • DMEA CONTRACT RECOMMENDED DENIED IN 1955

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G.H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE US: US BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 297.

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL AND KLEINHAMPL, 1961, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BARE MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 157.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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