Lakeview Prospect

Past Producer in Mineral 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. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Workings at the site
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

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

Geographic coordinates: -117.92038, 38.39993 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377

Site location context

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Mineral

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 036E 12 N Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • A GROUP OF FIVE UNPATENTED CLAIMS ABOUT A MILE NORTH-NORTHEAST OF DREW MINE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST : 1972; 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1980 EDITION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue

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 > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Luning
    Rock description Luning
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.92038, 38.39993

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Cinnabar Canyon Thrust Fault

Ore body information

  • General form VEINLETS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCK IS THE COARSELY CRYSTALLINE LOWER LIMESTONE MEMBER OF THE LUNING FORMATION; THIS IS THE ONLY MINE IN THE UPPER PLACE OF THE CINNABAR CANYON THRUST FAULT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1919
Discoverer Jong Shore Wong

Mining district

District name Pilot Mountains District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Bell, H. W.
    Home office Reno, Nv
  • Type Owner
    Owner Cong Wong Estate, Jung Wong, Executor, Reno

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 106.68M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF 350 FEET OF DRIFTS AND ADITS IN THREE LEVELS, PLUS SEVERAL SMALL PITS.

Comments on development

  • AT THE END OF 1942, THE LESSEE WAS INSTALLING A TWO-PIPE RETORT AND EXPECTED TO STAR RETORTING ORE FROM THE DUMPS. PRODUCTION IS UNKNOWN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58

  • Deposit

    PHOENIX, D.A., & CATHCART, I.B., 1952, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973-D.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., & PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41.

General comments

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.

Reporter information

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

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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