| Deposit ID | 10045347 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M233054 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Lakeview Prospect |
| Alternate or previous names | Chong Wong, Jong Wong, Lakeview Mine |
| Geographic coordinates: | -117.92038, 38.39993 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 2377 |
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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Nevada | Mineral |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Diablo | 006N | 036E | 12 | N | Nevada |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Cinnabar | Ore |
| Barite | Gangue |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Pyrite | Gangue |
| Model code | 177 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 27a |
| Deposit model name | Hot-spring Hg |
| Host or associated | Host | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone | ||
| Rock unit name | Luning | ||
| Rock description | Luning | ||
| |||
| (1) | -117.92038, 38.39993 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Regional |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Cinnabar Canyon Thrust Fault |
| General form | VEINLETS |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1919 |
| Discoverer | Jong Shore Wong |
| District name | Pilot Mountains District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Bell, H. W. |
| Home office | Reno, Nv |
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Cong Wong Estate, Jung Wong, Executor, Reno |
| Type of workings | Surface/Underground |
|---|---|
| Length | 106.68M |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M233054 |
ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58
PHOENIX, D.A., & CATHCART, I.B., 1952, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973-D.
BAILEY, E.H., & PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | CINNABAR OCCURS AS SCATTERED CRYSTALS AND FRAGMENTS IN OPEN CUTS DIRECTLY ABOVE THE UNDERGROUND WORKINGS, IN CRACKS AND VEINLETS ASSOCIATD WITH CALCITE, AND DISSEMINATED IN LIMESTONE. THE ORE BODIES MINED WERE SMALL AND HIGH-GRADE; THEY OCCURRED IN AND NEAR STEEP NORMAL FAULTS AND AT FAULT INTERSECTIONS. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-JUL-1981 | Flynn, Patricia D. (Tingley, J. V.) | Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology | |
| Updater | 01-JAN-1994 | Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) | U.S. Geological Survey |
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