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Friendship Mine

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Antimony, 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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040586
MRDS ID M055413
Record type Site
Current site name Friendship Mine
Alternate or previous names Huntley Prospect
Related records 10222392

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.10764, 40.13879 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Relative position 1 MI SW OF HOLLYWOOD MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fisher Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(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 26N 34E 12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1 MI. SE OF HOLLYWOOD MINE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Antimony Critical Primary
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • NO ANTIMONY ORE BODIES FOUND (1948)

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Stibnite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement

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 Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Dun Glen Formation
    Rock description Dun Glen Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.10764, 40.13879
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Fracture; Overturned Anticlinorium

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
  • General form TABULAR

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE PROSPECT IS ON A FRACTURE IN LIMESTONE BRECCIA, NEAR A CONTACT WITH SHALES AND SILTSTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Antelope Springs

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • BULLDOZING, TRENCHING

Comments on development

  • IN 1948 CONSIDERABLE BULLDOZING AND TRENCHING WERE DONE IN AN UNSUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO UNCOVER ANTIMONY ORE BODIES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE, F.C., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 61

  • Deposit

    WALLACE, ET AL, 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE BUFFALO MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, PERSHING AND CHURCHILL COUNTIES, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 821.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE PROSPECT IS ON A FRACTURE IN LIMESTONE BRECCIA NEAR A CONTACT WITH SHALES AND SILTSTONES
Deposit IN 1948 CONSIDERABLE BULLDOZING AND TRENCHING DONE IN AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO UNCOVER ANTIMO ORE BODIES ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-OCT-1980 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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