Mine detail: Horse Canyon Mine

Previously called 'NBMG Sample Sites 151715181519'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.15991, -116.56342

Resource(B)

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Barium-Barite
Ore: Barite, Gold
Gangue: Clay, Jarosite, Pyrite, Quartz
Orebody form: TABULAR

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1983

Geology

Host rock:Vinini;Wenban
Host type:Shale
Associated type:Rhyolite
Structure:Roberts Mountains Thrust; Cortez Window, High Angle Faulting; Fractures; Folding
Alteration processes:Silicification, Bleaching, Clay Alteration

References

MRDSM242255
DEP10047015
Reference{Deposit:: BENTZ, J., BONHAM, H., TINGLEY, J.V., SMITH,P., 1982, FIELD EXAMINATION REPORT, 7/82.}{Deposit:: BONHAM, H.F., 1988, IN NBMG MI-1987.}{Deposit:: BONHAM, H.F., 1986, NBMG MAP 91.}{Deposit:: UNPUBLISHED REPORT BY CORTEZ GOLD MINES, 1983.}{Deposit:: NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 109, NUMEROUS CLIPPINGS.}{Deposit:: FOO, S.T., AND HEBERT, J. P., 1987, GEOLOGY OF THE HORSE CANYON DEPOSIT, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, IN JOHNSON, J. L., ED., GUIDEBOOK FOR FIELD TRIPS, BULK MINEABLE PRECIOUS METAL DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEVADA SYMPOSIUM, APRIL 6-8, 1988, RENO, NEVADA. P. 326-332}{Deposit:: MCCORMACK, JOHN K., 1991, WRITTEN COMMUNICATION.}{Production:: UNPUB. REPORT, 1983.}{Reserve-Resource:: BONHAM, 1988. MCCORMACK, JOHN K. 1991.}
ReporterLa Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Moyer, Lorre A. (Marcus, S.M.)