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Eclipse Group

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Silica, Sulfur
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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. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10098677
MRDS ID M242318
Record type Site
Current site name Eclipse Group
Alternate or previous names Ralston Quicksilver Prospect

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.16897, 37.56634 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position EXACT LOCATION UNCERTAIN, To Workings Shown On Topo In General Vicinity Of The Prospect

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ralston(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004S 043E 28,29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 18 MILES DUE SOUTH OF GOLDFIELD BY HIGHWAY, 13 MILES BY ROAD VIA RALSTON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Silica Secondary
Sulfur Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Sulfur Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Alteration Of Igneous Lavas By Hot Spring And Gas Action

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES ASSAYED 3 LB/TG/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.16897, 37.56634
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discoverer George F. Smith

Mining district

District name Cuprite District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Joseph Fuetch, Wm. Beyer, George F. Smith, Edwin Reimann, All Of Goldfield
    First year 1931

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 45.72M
    Overall depth 15.24M

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNEL, DRIFTING; CABIN AND BLACKSMITH SHOP 1800 FT N32E FROM MINE, AND A 50 FT. SHAFT

Comments on development

  • 4 CLAIMS; FIRST WORK DONE FOR SILICA BY DICK BROTHERS, CANADIANS LIVING IN GOLDFIELD, IDLE FOR A TIME; THEN SMITH RELOCATED CLAIMS IN 1930 SINCE WHICH TIME THEY HAVE LENGTHENED THE TUNNEL AND DONE SOME DRIFTING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMITH, A.M. AND CARPENTER, JAY, 1931, INSPECTION TRIP, NBMG FILE 86, ITEM 1

  • Deposit

    USBM 1979, MILS DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SNOWY MASS OF PULVURENT SILICA AND ALUNITE CONTAINING SKELETAL BODIES OF CHERT WHICH HOLD IT TOGETHER. IN SOME OF THE JOINTS AND FISSURES CINNABAR WAS DEPOSITED, ALSO SULPHUR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-82 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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