The Lakeview Prospect is a mercury mine located in Mineral county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,799 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
Elevation: 7,799 Feet (2,377 Meters)
Commodity: Mercury
Lat, Long: 38.4, -117.91944
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Lakeview Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lakeview Prospect
Secondary: Chong Wong
Secondary: Jong Wong
Secondary: Lakeview Mine
Commodity
Primary: Mercury
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Pilot Mountains 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
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Cong Wong Estate, Jung Wong, Executor, Reno
Owner Name: Bell, H. W.
Home Office: Reno, Nv
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1919
Discovery Method: 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: Hot-spring Hg
Orebody
Form: VEINLETS
Structure
Type: R
Description: Cinnabar Canyon Thrust Fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Gangue: Barite
Gangue: Pyrite
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Location): A GROUP OF FIVE UNPATENTED CLAIMS ABOUT A MILE NORTH-NORTHEAST OF DREW MINE. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST : 1972; 1:24000 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1980 EDITION
Comment (Development): AT THE END OF 1942, THE LESSEE WAS INSTALLING A TWO-PIPE RETORT AND EXPECTED TO STAR RETORTING ORE FROM THE DUMPS. PRODUCTION IS UNKNOWN.
Comment (Deposit): CINNABAR OCCURS AS SCATTERED CRYSTALS AND FRAGMENTS IN OPEN CUTS DIRECTLY ABOVE THE UNDERGROUND WORKINGS, IN CRACKS AND VEINLETS ASSOCIATD WITH CALCITE, AND DISSEMINATED IN LIMESTONE. THE ORE BODIES MINED WERE SMALL AND HIGH-GRADE; THEY OCCURRED IN AND NEAR STEEP NORMAL FAULTS AND AT FAULT INTERSECTIONS.
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF 350 FEET OF DRIFTS AND ADITS IN THREE LEVELS, PLUS SEVERAL SMALL PITS.
Comment (Geology): COUNTRY ROCK IS THE COARSELY CRYSTALLINE LOWER LIMESTONE MEMBER OF THE LUNING FORMATION; THIS IS THE ONLY MINE IN THE UPPER PLACE OF THE CINNABAR CANYON THRUST FAULT.
References
Reference (Deposit): ROSS, D.C., 1961, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 58
Reference (Deposit): PHOENIX, D.A., & CATHCART, I.B., 1952, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN THE SOUTHERN PILOT MOUNTAINS, MINERAL COUNTY, NEVADA: USGS BULL. 973-D.
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY, E.H., & PHOENIX, D.A., 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41.
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.
