The Hot Prospect is a mercury and antimony mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,600 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,600 Feet (1,402 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury, Antimony
Lat, Long: 40.19194, -117.65000
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Hot Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Hot Prospect
Secondary: Beacon, Polkinghorne Prospect
Secondary: Hot Group
Secondary: Valley View, Bonetta, Cain Claims
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Primary: Antimony
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Location
State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Mount Tobin District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Chemical And Petroleum Corp. And/Or Houston Oil And Mineral Corp.
Years: 1980 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1956
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Barite-fluorite veins
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR, PODS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Mt. Tobin Thrust Fault
Type: L
Description: Ne Trending Fault Zones
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Replacement, Silicification
Rocks
Name: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Pliocene
Name: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Name: Volcanic Breccia (Agglomerate)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: 53.3% SB, 0.03% AS, 0.05% PB, 0.05% SE, TORCU
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Stibnite
Gangue: Kermesite
Unknown: Barite
Comments
Comment (Geology): 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
Comment (Location): UNSURVEYED SECTIONS
Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESERVES MAY BE 2000 TONS OF 8 LB/TON ORE
Comment (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.
Comment (Workings): 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
Comment (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
Comment (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.
Comment (Production): IDLE SINCE 1958
References
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 89
Reference (Deposit): LAWRENCE, 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 61
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA; IN USBM 1C 8252
Reference (Deposit): GARSIDE, L. J., 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION OF DISTRICT.
Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E. H., RYTUBA, J. J. AND JONES, R. B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON NEVADA MERCURY DEPOSITS.
Reference (Production): JOHNSON, M.G., 1977.
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
