Lori Mine

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109635
MRDS ID M055280
Record type Site
Current site name Lori Mine
Alternate or previous names Lori No. 1
Related records 10296076

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.16736, 40.13046 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position ADJOINS PERSHING MINE - TO THE SE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buffalo Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 26N 34E 16 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ADJOINS PERSHING MINE TO THE SE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Analytical data

Result 8 TO 10 LB ORE

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 > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.16736, 40.13046

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Relief Fault (Thrust); Nw Normal Fault; Overturned Anticlinorium.

Comments on the geologic information

  • CINNABAR OCCURS AS DISSEMINATIONS IN SANDSTONE AND AS VEINLETS AND DISSEMINATIONS ALONG FRACTURES IN CONGLOMERATIC DOLOMI.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1912
Production years 1928-1930, 1941-1943, 1955-1958

Mining district

District name Antelope Springs

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Allen And Walter Brinkerhoff

Comments on the production information

  • INTERMITTENT TOTAL PRODUCTION

Comments on development

  • PRODUCTION YEAR1928-30, 1941-43, 1955-58

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL 89.

  • Deposit

    SILBERLING AND WALLACE, 1969, STRATIGRAPHY OF THE STAR PEAK GROUP (TRIASSIC) AND OVERLYING LOWER MESOZOIC ROCKS, HUMBOLDT RANGE, NEVADA: USGS PP 592, P. 45

  • Deposit

    HMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA; USBM 1C 8252, P. 248-249

  • Deposit

    WALLACE, ETAL, 1959, PRELIM. GEOLOGIC MAP OF BUFFALO MTN QUAD., NEVADA: USGS MAP MF-220

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CINNABAR OCCURS AS DISSEMINATIONS IN SANDSTONE AND AS VEINLETS AND DISSEMINATIONS ALONG FRACTURES IN CONGLOMERATIC DOLOMITE.
Deposit LORI MINE IS LOCATED ON PERSHING RIDGE ALONG WITH PERSHING, MONTGOMERY AND EASTERN STAR MINES. THE RELATIVELY HIGH PERMEABILITY AND THE INTENSE FRACTURING OF THE CONGLOMERATE DOLOMITE ARE PROBABLE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE MERCURY MINERALIZATION. DISCOVERED 1912. PRODUCTION YEARS 1928-30, 1941-43, 1955-58. LOCATED AS PART OF THE PERSHING GROUP SOME PRODUCTION INCLUDED WITH PERSHING MINE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-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

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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