Lithium-bearing rocks of the Horse Spring Formation, Clark County, Nevada

Elizabeth F. Brenner-Tourtelot and Richard K. Glanzman

Energy, 1978, vol. 3, issue 3, 255-262

Abstract: The Horse Spring Formation of Miocene age in Clark County, Nevada, contains as much as 0.5% Li in individual samples. Rock sequences which average 0.1% Li range from 3 m thick near Gold Butte (south of Mesquite, Nev.) to as much as 40 m thick near Lava Butte (east of Las Vegas, Nev.) about 75 km to the west. The lithium-bearing beds are light colored to white and contain hectorite in a dolomite, magnesite, or calcite matrix. Varied amounts of gypsum, halite, celestite, clinoptilolite, quartz, feldspar, biolite and colemanite are also present locally. Hectorite is the only lithium mineral recognized to date.

Date: 1978
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(78)90021-X

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