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Hot Prospect

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Antimony, Gold, Barium-Barite
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040473
MRDS ID M055274
Record type Site
Current site name Hot Prospect
Alternate or previous names Beacon, Polkinghorne Prospect, Hot Group, Valley View, Bonetta, Cain Claims
Related records 10222247

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.65096, 40.19184 (WGS84)
Elevation 1402
Relative position 2000 FT. N OF AIRWAY BEACON; 7 1/2 MI. NW OF MCCOY RANCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sou Hills(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 027N 038E 25 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED SECTIONS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Antimony Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Stibnite Ore
Kermesite Gangue
Barite Unknown

Alteration

  • (Local) Replacement, Silicification

Analytical data

Result 53.3% SB, 0.03% AS, 0.05% PB, 0.05% SE, TORCU

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 175
USGS model code 26c
Deposit model name Barite-fluorite veins

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Triassic
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite
    Rock unit name Natchez Pass Formation
    Rock description Natchez Pass Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.65096, 40.19184
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Mt. Tobin Thrust Fault
Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne Trending Fault Zones

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR, PODS
    Strike N20E
    Dip 85W

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • BARITE OCCURS AS VEINLETS, ISOLATED PODS, AND MASSES REPLACING THE LIMESTONE. SMALL GRAINS AND CRYSTALS OF CINNABAR OCCURS ERRATICALLY IN BARITE VEINS AND ALONG THIN SEAMS IN THE FRACTURED LIMESTONE ADJOINING THE FAULT. STIBNITE OCCURS AS SPORADIC PODS ALONG THE FAULT. THE STIBNITE AND SOME OF CINNABAR WERE DEPOSITED EARLIER THAN THE BARITE. SOME OF THE CINNABAR IS YOUNGER THAN THE STIBNITE. ; GEOL.DESC: NE TRENDING FAULT ZONES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1956
Discoverer Rene Amat
Production years TO 1956

Mining district

District name Mount Tobin District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Chemical And Petroleum Corp. And/Or Houston Oil And Mineral Corp.
    First year 1980

Comments on the production information

  • IDLE SINCE 1958

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES MAY BE 2000 TONS OF 8 LB/TON ORE

Comments on the workings information

  • CUTS, ADIT, PITS. SEVERAL LONG BULLDOZER CUTS WHICH HAVE BEEN ENLARGED TO SMALL OPEN CUTS WHERE SIGNS OF MINERALIZATION WERE ENCOU-NTERED. ALSO, SOME CHURN DRILL HOLES HAVE BEEN PUT DOWN, NOTAB-LY ON THE CAIN CLAIMS

Comments on development

  • IDLE SINCE 195810 CLAIMS LEASED SOON AFTER STAKING IN 1956 TO HUMBOLDT METALS, A PARTNERSHIP ARRANGED BY R. R. WHITING. EXPLORATI-ON DONE IN 1957 WAS NOT PRODUCTIVE AND THE LEASE WAS DROPPED. -FROM 1963 TO 1972 ADDITIONAL EXPLORATION BY BULLDOZING, DRILLI-NG, AND GEOCHEMICAL SAMPLING WAS DONE BY THE OWNERS AND AT LEA-ST TWO GROUPS OF LESSEES, BUT WITH THE DEPRESSED PRICE OF MERC-URY, THE TITLE WAS APPARENTLY ALLOWED TO LAPSE AFTER 1973. IN -1974, PART OF THE GROUND WAS STAKED AS THE VALLEY VIEW CLAIM B-Y ED HAGER. IN 1978, AN EASTERN SECTOR WAS RELOCATED BY THE CH-EMICAL AND PETROLEUM CORP AS THE BONETTA CLAIM, AND A WESTERN -PART BY HOUSTON OIL AND MINERALS CORP AS THE CAIN GROUP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE, 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 61

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA; IN USBM 1C 8252

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L. J., 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION OF DISTRICT.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CLAIMS LOCATED IN 1956. IDLE SINCE 1958. DEVELOPMENT INCLUDES EXTENSIVE BULLDOZER CUTS, A SHORT ADIT, AND NUMEROUS SHALLOW TEST PITS. MINE IS IN THE LOWER PLATE OF THE MT. TOBIN THRUST FAULT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit SOME CINNABAR IS YOUNGER THAN THE STIBNITE. IN PLACES, THE CINNABAR FORMS BLEBS AND VEINLETS AS MUCH AS 0.25 INCH THICK IN BARITE LENSES 1-3 FT THICK, AND L-OCALLY IT IS ACCOMPANIED BY STIBNITE AND SB OXIDES. IN SOME PL-ACES THE ORE IS VERY RICH AND MAY CONTAIN SEVERAL PERCENT HG, -BUT SUCH PLACES HAVE BEEN SO SMALL AND SO ERRATICALLY DISTRIBU-TED THAT EXPLORATION IN THIS AREA OF SCANT EXPOSURE HAS BEEN D-IFFICULT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1976 Gassaway, Judith S. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-JAN-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

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