Belmont Group

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Gold, Silver
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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040497
MRDS ID M055303
Record type Site
Current site name Belmont Group
Related records 10271048

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.29282, 37.54746 (WGS84)
Elevation 1768
Relative position 2.85 MILES NE OF QUARTZITE MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Quartzite Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cactus Flat(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

DOD(Federal land areas administered by DOD)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004S 051E 32,33 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Iron Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) The Dacite Is Bleached Light Gray.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.29282, 37.54746

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description A Northwest Trending Silicified Horst. Faults Trending N50w, 80sw.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • In Silicified Zones.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: COMPLEX FAULTING IN AREA, DACITE (MIO) MAP UNIT

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1904

Mining district

District name Kawich District (Gold Reed)

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Al And Robert Martel

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 300 FT SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL.41

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, 1972, GEOL. AND MINERAL DEPOSITS SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY, NEV: NBMG BULL. 77, P. 38.

  • Deposit

    ROGERS, ET AL, 1967, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE QUARTZITE MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS MAP GQ - 672.

  • Deposit

    5) BALL, S.H., 1907, A GEOL. RECON. OF SW NEV. AND E. CALIF.: USGS BULL. 308, P. 111-113.

  • Deposit

    6) KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 92.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AG REPORTED TO OCCUR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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