Hot Prospect

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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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

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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.