| Deposit ID | 10040466 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | M055270 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Happy Day Prospect |
| Alternate or previous names | Happy Day Mine |
| Related records | 10150115 |
| Geographic coordinates: | -118.09903, 40.29962 (WGS84) |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 1585 |
| Relative position | 2 - 1/2 MI S OF FITTING |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Pershing(county)
Nevada(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Fitting(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)
Lovelock(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)
Lovelock(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Nevada | Pershing |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Diablo | 028N | 034E | 12 | Nevada |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Mercury | Primary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Cinnabar | Ore |
| Calcite | Gangue |
| Model code | 177 |
|---|---|
| USGS model code | 27a |
| Deposit model name | Hot-spring Hg |
| Host or associated | Host | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rock type | Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone | ||||
| Rock unit name | Rochester Rhyolite (Wallace, Et Al) | ||||
| Rock description | Rochester Rhyolite (Wallace, Et Al) | ||||
| |||||
| (1) | -118.09903, 40.29962 |
|---|
| Type of structure | Local |
|---|---|
| Structure description | Nw Trending Fault (Concealed) |
| General form | VEINLETS |
|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
|---|---|
| Commodity type | Metallic |
| Deposit size | Small |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1954 |
| Production years | TO 1957 |
| District name | Spring Valley District |
|---|
| Ownership category | BLM Administrative Area |
|---|
| Type | Owner |
|---|---|
| Owner | Virgil Olson And Others |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | M055270 |
HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE U.S., USBM IC8252
HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252
WALLACE, ET AL, 1969, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE UNIONVILLE QUADRANGLE, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 820.
USBM UNPUB DATA
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | VEINLETS AND POCKETS OF CINNABAR OCCUR ERRATICALLY ALONG A NARROW CALCITE VEIN. |
| Deposit | LOCATED IN 1954. WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 50-FOOT ADIT ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 01-DEC-1975 | Gassaway, Judith S. | Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology | |
| Updater | 01-DEC-1980 | Royse, Sue E. | Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology | |
| Updater | 01-SEP-1994 | Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) | U.S. Geological Survey |
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