Mine detail: Butler Mine

Previously called 'Nevada-Chief Property'

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Location: Nye County, Nevada, United States, North America
Lat / long: 38.76575, -117.87872
dep_id: 10044209
mrds_id: M231578
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold, Silver
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Past Producer
ore: Gold, Silver
alteration: Oxidation
ore_ctrl: The Quartz Vein Is Bounding A Rhyolite Dike 1 To 600 Ft Wide In Andesite.
Reporter: Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)
hrock_type: Dacite
arock_type: Rhyolite
Structure: Fault Striking N40e,Dip 53w
References:
  • Deposit:: KRAL, V.E., 1951, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., BULL. 50, P. 58
  • Deposit:: KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO.: NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.
  • Deposit:: SIRDEVAN,W.H.,1914, UNPUBLISHED NOTES ON PROSPECTS AT GOLDYKE: NBMG FILE 227, ITEM 1.
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