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Crystal Prospect

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Silver, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite, Copper, Barium-Barite
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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. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Ownership information
  17. Production statistics
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046384
MRDS ID M241532
Record type Site
Current site name Crystal Prospect
Alternate or previous names Part of the Clover Group 1978, Crystal Mercury, NBMG Sample Site 578
Related records 10125403

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.31721, 37.24304 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position To Area Of Sample 578; Claims Cover Larger Area

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Blue Nose Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Clover Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Virgin(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado-Lake Mead(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 069E 19,30 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ADJACENT TO BLUE NOSE GROUP. AT LEAST 18 CLAIMS, THE EARLIEST OF WHICH WERW IN AN AREA N AND W OF BLUE NOSE PEAK; LATER MORE CLAIMS TO 1.5 MILES S OF BLUE NOSE PEAK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Silver Primary
Lead Primary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Fluorite Ore
Galena Ore
Malachite Ore
Tetrahedrite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification Of Limestone

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 578 CONTAINS 1000 PPM AG, 3000 PPM AS, GREATER THAN 5000 PPM BA, GREATER THAN 500 PPM CD, GREATER 20,000 PPM CU, 300 PPM MO GREATER THAN 20000 PPM PB, GREATER THAN 10000 PPM SB, 1500 PPM SR, GREATER THAN 10000 PPM ZN.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 177
USGS model code 27a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Hg

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Carbonate Shelf Sequence - Limestone
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N05E
    Dip 90

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Vertical Fault Zone

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1939
Discoverer G.F. Tutter And Howard Kehrl (Relocated In 1954, 1955)

Mining district

District name Viola District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Crystal Mining Corp. Of Nevada

Production statistics

  • Year 1957
    Period 1955-1957
    Material HG
    Accuracy Estimate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^25-26 Lb Hg/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Mercury Mercury 11290g/mt

Comments on the workings information

  • SCATTERED CUTS AND A SHALLOW SHAFT WITH CONNECTED SHORT ADIT ABOUT 0.25 MILE NORTH OF BLUE NOSE PEAK; SCATTERED PITS

Comments on development

  • ORIGINAL CLAIMS WERE IN AN AREA N AND W OF BLUE NOSE PEAK AND IN 1980 THE GROUND APPARENTLY WAS INCLUDED IN THE CLOVER GROUP OF MORE THAN 60 CLAIMS EXTENDING FROM ONE MINE NW OF THE PEAK TO 1.5 MILES S OF IT. THE ORIGINAL LOCATORS, LATER JOINED BY O.C. MUDD AND D.E. COTNER DEVELOPED THE PROPERTY BETWEEN 1955 AND 1962. A SMALL RETORT WAS ERECTED NEAR THE SHAFT AND IN 1955 AT LEAST ONE FLASK OF HG WAS PRODUCED. IN 1957, THE CRYSTAL MINING CORP. REPORTED THAT THEY WERE RETORTING ORE, BUT RCORDED NO PRODUCTION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    OBSERVATION

  • Production

    NBMG UNPUB. REPT.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINNABAR OCCURS IN THE SHAFT AREA IN A FOOT-WIDE BROKEN, LOCALLY BANDED ZONE FORMED ALONG A FAULT CUTTING THE LIMESTONE. FRAGMENTS ON THE DUMP CONTAINED CRUSTS OF CINNABAR AS MUCH AS 0.125 INCH THICK, AND SELECTED PIECES WOULD PROVIDE GOOD RETORT-GRADE ORE. OTHER WORKINGS 1000 FT E OF THE SHAFT WERE DUG IN SILICIFIED IRON-STAINED LIMESTONE. HERE AZURITE AND MALACHITE OCCUR WITH BARITE VEINS, AND A SMALL AMOUNT OF CINNABAR WAS FOUND BY PANNING THE DUMP MATERIAL. CINNABAR-BEARING STRINGERS IN THE LIMESTONE PINCH OUT AT DEPTH; IN THE CAPPING CINNABAR IS PRESENT AS DISSEMINATIONS AND CRYSTAL CLUSTERS. WORKINGS EXPLORE PODS OF RECRYSTALLIZED LIMESTONE IN LIMESTONE ALONG FRACTURES TRENDING N50E. CLOTS OF GALENA, TETRAHEDRITE OCCUR IN PODS ALONG WITH GREEN AND YELLOW-GREEN COPPER AND LEAD OXIDE MINERALS. VEINS AND BRECCIA FILLINGS OF CALCITE BARITE, FLUORITE OCCUR. SOME FLUORITE CRYSTALS FILL VUGS IN BARITE-CEMENTED BRECCIA AT SAMPLE 578 SITE. STRUCTURE IS NOT CLEARLY DEFINED. IN THE SAMPLE,
Deposit THE ROCK MATRIX IS MAINLY PALE GREEN TO COLORLESS FLUORITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-84 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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