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Lakeview Mine

Past Producer in Mineral 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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040513
MRDS ID M055322
Record type Site
Current site name Lakeview Mine
Alternate or previous names Jong Wong, Chinaman's Property, Chong Wong
Related records 10295087

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.92288, 38.39243 (WGS84)
Elevation 2524
Relative position 1.5 MILES NE OF CINNABAR SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bettles Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fish Lake-Soda Spring 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 Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 036E 12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE BODIES WERE SMALL BUT HIGH GRADE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Luning Formation
    Rock description Luning Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.92288, 38.39243
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Faults

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1919
Discoverer Jong Shore Wong

Mining district

District name Pilot Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Carl Moser
    Home office Gardena, Ca..

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 106.68M

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A SHAFT WITH THREE LEVELS AND SEVERAL SMALL PITS.

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

    ROSS, 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    5) PHOENIX AND CATHCART, 1951, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973 - D

  • Production

    BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SOME DETRITAL CINNABAR ON THE SURFACE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1981 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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Authoritative Nevada resources

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