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Engineering Report on the McDermitt Caldera Drilling Project: Humboldt County, Nevada, Harney and Malheur Counties, Oregon

Description: Introduction: This report presents engineering details, statistics, individual borehole histories, and geophysical logs of the eleven holes drilled in the McDermitt caldera project during the 1981 drilling program. General information is presented regarding specific problems, including weather and logistics. A separate geologic report is being prepared and will be available through the Bendix Field Engineering Corporation Technical Library in the near future.
Date: March 1981
Creator: Jones, L. I.
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Quicksilver Deposits of the Opalite District, Malheur County, Oregon and Humboldt County, Nevada

Description: From Introduction: "The Opalite quicksilver district includes two deposits with a considerable past production, one deposit with a small production, and one unproved prospect. These deposits are located along the circumference of a semicircular area that extends from a short distance west of McDermitt, Nev., for about 20 miles along the Oregon-Nevada State boundary. (See fig. 34). The area thus includes parts of Humboldt County, Nev., and Malheur County, Oreg.; almost the entire production has … more
Date: 1942
Creator: Yates, Robert G.
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Virgin Valley Opal District, Humboldt County, Nevada

Description: From abstract: Numerous discontinuous layers of opal are interbedded with a gently-dipping series of vitric tuff and ash which is at least 300 feet thick. The tuff and ash are capped by a dark, vesicular basalt in the eastern part of the area and by a thin layer of terrace gravels in the area along the west side of Virgin Valley.
Date: May 1951
Creator: Staatz, Mortimer Hay & Bauer, Herman L., Jr.
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