Buckskin mine, Fish Lake Valley Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USAi
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Buckskin mine | Mine |
Fish Lake Valley Mining District | Mining District |
Esmeralda County | County |
Nevada | State |
USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
37° 56' 4'' North , 118° 17' 24'' West
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Benton | 280 (2011) | 20.8km |
Dyer | 259 (2011) | 35.6km |
Sunny Slopes | 182 (2017) | 52.9km |
Mina | 155 (2011) | 53.1km |
Swall Meadows | 220 (2017) | 56.8km |
Mindat Locality ID:
60770
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:60770:9
GUID (UUID V4):
4ea264a6-346f-4703-9835-266b5b741957
Structure: A N 75 E Shear Zone Cuts Main N 30 E Zone
Deposit: Fault zone in altered rhyolite with thick bands of kaolinized rock on each wall. (shear zone about 6 ft wide). Caved zone above old adit exposes breccia-vein structure about 25 ft wide. Rock in silicified breccia appears to have been silicified, broken then recemented with chalcedonic quartz with dull hematite-cinnabar quartz coating surfaces and vugs. The breccia zone could be a pipe along structural intersection. Cinnabar is associated with latest mineralization stage, As it coats open fractures which cut silicified breccia.
Development: No activity at time of examination in 1982, but new claim posts noted.
Ore(s): Shear Zone; Intersection Of Structures
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4 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
ⓘ Cinnabar Formula: HgS |
ⓘ Hematite Formula: Fe2O3 |
ⓘ Opal Formula: SiO2 · nH2O |
ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
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ⓘ | Cinnabar | 2.CD.15a | HgS |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
ⓘ | Opal | 4.DA.10 | SiO2 · nH2O |
List of minerals for each chemical element
H | Hydrogen | |
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H | ⓘ Opal | SiO2 · nH2O |
O | Oxygen | |
O | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
O | ⓘ Opal | SiO2 · nH2O |
O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | ⓘ Opal | SiO2 · nH2O |
Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
Hg | Mercury | |
Hg | ⓘ Cinnabar | HgS |
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Link to USGS MRDS: | 10046906 |
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