Mine detail: Bond Gold Bullfrog Mine

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Location

Lat / long:

36.89746, -116.81672

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
Ore:	Acanthite, Electrum, Gold, Pyrite
Gangue:	Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Orebody form:	TABULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Deposit type:	Hydrothermal Stockwork
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1989-PRESENT (11/91)
First production started:	1989

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated type:	Gneiss,Clastic Sedimentary Rock,Carbonate
Structure:	Bullfrog Detachment Fault., Listric Normal Fault In The Upper Plate Of The Bullfrog Detachment Fault.
Tectonic:	Within Timber Mountain Caldera Complex And Bare Mountain-Bullfrog Hills Metamorphic Core Complex. Also Within Walker Lane Structural Zone.
Alteration processes:	See Comments

References

MRDS	RE00023
DEP	10055085
Reference	{Deposit:: NOBLE, D.C., ET AL, 1991, MAGMATIC AND HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY, CALDERA GEOLOGY, AND REGIONAL EXTENSION IN THE WESTERN PART OF THE SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA VOLCANIC FIELD IN GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GREAT BASIN, SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, RAINES, G.L., ET AL, EDS., THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEVADA, RENO, P. 913-934.}{Deposit:: NBMG, 1990, THE NEVADA MINERAL INDUSTRY 1990, NBMG SPECIAL PUBLICATION MI-1990.}{Deposit:: JORGENSEN, D.K., ET AL, 1990, GEOLOGY, ALTERATION, AND MINERALOGY OF BOND GOL * BULLFROG DEPOSIT, SOCIETY OF MINING ENGINEERS PREPRINT NUMBER 89-135.}
Reporter	Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.)