Quartzite vein
Prospect Mountain Ag-Pb-Au
Metals on this play: ag, pb, au
Calibration
Raymond & Ely / Lightner, Hermes, Pioche townsite. Hamblin 1863; Ely & Raymond purchase.
The trap
Host. Prospect Mountain Quartzite veins, Pioche townsite / Treasure Hill.
Trap. Fissure veins. Raymond & Ely ground. Gunlock Bill (William Haynes Hamblin) 1863 Panaca discovery — not Comet.
What a hit looks like. Quartz-siderite-galena vein in quartzite. High Ag+Pb. Townsite dumps, Treasure Hill.
Wrong mountain
Gunlock Bill is Play F (Raymond & Ely), not Play G (Comet tungsten) and not Play E (Caselton Zn). Do not hunt petrified wood on Treasure Hill. Do not hunt the Osceola 24-lb nugget on Ely Street. Do not walk Techatticup or Keyhole with a Pioche quartzite checklist.
- Replacement in Combined Metals limestone — Play E.
- Sandstone + wood — Play A.
- Scheelite / wolframite — Play G.
- Gulch gravel / placer nugget — Play H (Osceola). The Pioche Record printed that story; Treasure Hill is not the gulch.
- Epithermal quartz-calcite in Nelson monzonite / Keyhole leucogranite / Eldorado volcanics — Play I. Not Prospect Mountain quartzite.
How to use the score
The score orders the day. It is a walk sort. It is not an assay, a mining claim, or permission to enter. Killed ground stays on the map so the boundary is visible. Private land, tribal land, and park interiors stay off the walk.