1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Unnamed Mercury Prospect

Occurrence in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  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 10047388
MRDS ID M242678
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Mercury Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55012, 40.33323 (WGS84)
Elevation 1951

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Needle Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Fish Creek Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(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 028N 039E 02 NE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON THE TOP OF A PROMINENT SPUR RIDGE 0.5 MILE S. OF THE BLUEBIRD (LAST CHANCE) PROSPECT . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ALTHOUGH NO CINNABAR WAS SEEN IN OUTCROPS, PITS, OR DUMPS, A SINGLE PAN OF A COMPOSITE SAMPLE TAKEN CHIEFLY FROM THE DUMP OF THE DEEPEST SHAFT WAS FOUND TO CONTAIN MORE THAN 50 GRAINS OF CINNABAR.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification

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 > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Rock unit name Koipato Group
    Rock description Koipato Group

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55012, 40.33323
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Nw-Trending Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Broken Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Mount Tobin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 6.1M

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 SHAFTS AND SEVERAL SHALLOW CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J., AND JONES, 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, NBMG BULL 89, PL. I.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SILICEOUS VOLCANIC ROCK HAS BEEN SILICIFIED AND IS CROSSED BY BROKEN ZONES STAINED WITH LIMONITE. SHAFTS HAVE BEEN SUNK IN THE AREAS OF GREATEST ALTERATION.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.