Unnamed Mercury-Gold Prospect

Prospect in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Gold
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. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097157
MRDS ID M055422
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Mercury-Gold Prospect
Alternate or previous names NBMG Sample Sites 3153, 3154

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.87344, 38.57686 (WGS84)
Relative position 1 MI S OF WARRIOR MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mineral(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Simon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Gabbs 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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009N 037E 33 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEW ROAD TO TOP OF HILL 1 MILE SOUTH OF WARRIOR MINE. AREA OF PROSPECTS EXTENDS OVER INTO MINERAL COUNTY. UTM IS FOR NBMG SAMPLE SITE 3153. UTM FOR NBMG SAMPLE SITE 3-154 IS N 4273530, E 427200 ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CINNABAR AND GOLD IN QUARTZ VEIN

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Alunite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Volcanics Are Bleached And Argillized

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 3153 CONTAINS 0.7 % FE, 0.07 % MG, 0.07 % CA, 0.05 % TI, 70 PPM MN, 3 PPM AG, 30 PPM B, 200 PPM BA, 1 PPM B-E, 70 PPM MO, 5 PPM NI, 30 PPM PB, 15 PPM V, 150 PPM ZR
Result SAMPL-E 3154 CONTAINS 2 % FE, 0.07 % MG, 0.07 % CA, 0.05 % TI, 200 P-PM MN, 2 PPM AG, 20 PPM B, 70 PPM BA, 1.5 PPM BE, 7 PPM CU, 5 -PPM MO, 5 PPM NI, 15 PPM PB, 15 PPM V, 30 PPM ZR.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.87344, 38.57686

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Shear Zones

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N40E
    Dip SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Athens District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • TEN OR MORE SHAFTS, SEVERAL ADITS, NUMEROUS TRENCHES AND PROSPECTS AS WELL AS RECENT ROADS AND DRILL HOLES.

Comments on development

  • OLD WORKINGS, BUT EXACT AGE IS UNKNOWN. FIRST PERIOD WAS FOR GOLD, LATER FOR MERCURY, AND RECENTLY DRILLED FOR GOL-D (MARCH, 1986)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    YORK, 1944, THE GEOLOGY OF NEVADA ORE DEPOSITS: NBMG BULL. 40

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WORKINGS ARE ON A HILL ABOUT 500 FT ABOVE AND 1 MILE S OF WARRIOR MINE, BUT WITHIN THE SAME WELDED TUFF UNIT. MOST- OF THE WORKINGS ARE ALONG SILICIFIED ZONES WITHIN SHEARS THAT- CUT THE VOLCANICS LIKE A STOCKWORK. SAMPLE 3153 WAS FROM A VE-IN IN AN INCLINE BEARING S30E, 80W. ADJACENT TO THE SHAFT, A D-RILL HOLE HAS BEEN SLANTED TO CROSS THE SAME VEIN. THE VEIN MA-TERIAL WAS IRON-STAINED QUARTZ STRINGERS AND LESSER AMOUNTS OF- BRECCIA WITH QUARTZ FRAGMENTS AND A MATRIX CONSISTING IN PART- OF GRAY-BLACK FINE CRYSTALS OF SULFIDES. THE AMOUNT OF BRECCI-A PRESENT IS SUBORDINATE TO THE AMOUNT OF QUARTZ. SAMPLE 3154 -IS FROM ANOTHER SHAFT TO THE WEST THAT WAS ALSO ADJACENT TO A -SLANTED DRILL HOLE. THIS SECOND VEIN WAS IN A SHEAR BEARING N -40E, DIP SW, WITH STRINGERS OF IRON-STAINED QUARTZ AND SOME AL-UNITE CRYSTALS.
Deposit ON 250,000 TONOPAH SHEET, WARRIOR MINE SHOWN TO BE IN MINERAL COUNTY, COULD BE SAME AS COSTA PROSPECT. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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