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Thompson Property

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. 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. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040501
MRDS ID M055307
Record type Site
Current site name Thompson Property
Alternate or previous names Thompson Mine
Related records 10125238

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.63728, 36.94885 (WGS84)
Elevation 1292
Relative position 4.9 MILES N-NE OF MEIKLEJOHN PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beatty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011S 048E 29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY CONSIST OF 36 CLAIMS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Opal Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Silicification, Alunitized

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Glassy Rock > Obsidian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Glassy Rock > Obsidian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) Younger silicic ash flow tuffs
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Ne Trending Faults

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones In Silicified Volcanics (Obscure)

Comments on the geologic information

  • CINNABAR AS LIESEGANG SPHERES REPLACING RHYOLITE. HOST ROCK NEARLY HORIZONTAL. HOT SPRING SINTER IN AREA ; GEOL.DESC: HOST ROCK NEARLY HORIZONTAL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1929
Discoverer G. B. Thompson Of Beatty

Mining district

District name Fluorine District

Land status

Ownership category Federal

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Thompson, A. J.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • NO RESERVES

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Length 269.75M
    Overall depth 30.48M
    Overall length 60.96M
    Overall width 4.57M

Comments on the workings information

  • PROPERTY INACTIVE SINCE 1943. WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 100 FT SHAFT WITH TWO LEVELS AND 885 FT OF DRIFTS, AN OPEN CUT 200 FT LONG AND 15 FT WIDE, NUMEROUS SMALL OPEN, BULLDOZER CUTS, TRENCHES, SHORT ADITS, AND A SHALLOW SHAFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., AND PHOENIX, D. A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41, P. 143-144.

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G. H., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA, IN MERCURY POTENTIAL OF THE US: US BUR. OF MINES, INF. CIRC. 8252, P. 282.

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H.R. AND KLEINHAMPL, F.J., 1961, GEOLOGY OF THE BARE MOUNTAIN QUAD.: USGS QUAD. MAP GQ-157.

  • Deposit

    5) KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NBMG BULL. 50, P. 68.

  • Production

    HOLMES, 1965

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey

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