Mine detail: Buckingham Mine

Previously called 'HardyBentley*eary'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.6024, -117.069

Resource(M)

Primary: Lead, Silver
Secondary: Gold, Zinc, Copper
Ore: Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Orebody form: IRREGULAR, TABULAR, DISSEMINATED
Discovery year: 1867

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Replacement
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1875

Geology

Host rock:Harmony Formation
Host type:Hornfels,Quartzite
Associated type:Quartz Monzonite
Structure:Folding, Thrust Faults, Nw And Ne-Trending Faults: Buckingham Fault
Alteration processes:Argillic, Pyritic

References

MRDSM231306
DEP10043993
Reference{Deposit:: STEWART, J.H., MCKEE, E.H, AND STAGER, H.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 88.}{Deposit:: HILL, J.M., 1915, SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA: USGS BULL 594}{Deposit:: ROBERTS, R.J. AND ARNOLD, D.C., 1965, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES, NEVADA: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 459-B.}{Production:: STEWART, MCKEE & STAGER, 1977.}
ReporterFlynn, Patricia Dodd