Limerick Canyon Prospect

The Limerick Canyon Prospect is a gold mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,161 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Limerick Canyon Prospect
Secondary: Empire Ground ?

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Rochester 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

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification

Rocks

Name: Greenstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic

Name: Greenstone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Gangue: Tourmaline

Comments

Comment (Deposit): SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND ONE SHAFT. THE WORKINGS ARE WELL HIDDEN AND THE ORIGINAL ACCESS ROAD HAS BEEN ENTIRELY OBLITERATED BY SEASONALLY DEPOSITED FLUVIAL GRAVELS. PLANAR FISSILITY PRONOUNCED IN THE COUNTRY ROCK. SCHRADER DESCRIBES "EMPIRE GROUND" AS A QUARTZ VEIN IN GREENSTONE IN LIMERICK CANYON ALSO SUPPOSEDLY CONSISTING OF BARITE, TETRAHEDRITE, STIBNITE AND MOLYBDENITE IN THE VEIN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Comment (Development): APPARENTLY INACTIVE IN 1984

Comment (Deposit): THE ONLY CONTINUOUS STRUCTURES ARE THIN, SHEARED, MASSIVE PYRITE/TOURMALINE SEAMS THAT ROUGHLY PARALLEL CLEAVAGE OF THE SCHISTOSE GREENSTONE

Comment (Workings): SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND ONE SHAFT NO QUARTZ VEINS SEEM TO BE FOLLOWED.

Comment (Geology): GEOL.COM: NO QUARTZ VEINS SEEM TO BE FOLLOWED IN THE WORKINGS. ONLY CONTINUOUS STRUCTURES ARE THIN (SEVERAL CM THICK), SHEARED, MASSIVE PYRITE/TOURMALINE SEAMS WHICH ROUGHLY CLEAVAGE OF THE SCHISTOSE GREENSTONE.

References

Reference (Deposit): SCHRADER, F. C., 1918 ROCHESTER MINING DTRICT, NEVADA: IN USGS BULL.580

Reference (Deposit): VIKRE, P. G., 1978, GEOLOGY AND SILVER MINERALIZATION OF THE ROCHESTER DISTRICT, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA, PH.D. THESIS STANFORD UNIV.

Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3

Reference (Deposit): BONHAM, H. F., JR., 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION

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.