Mine detail: Cove Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.33629, -117.20233

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Manganese, Arsenic, Mercury, Antimony, Lead, Zinc, Tin, Copper, Thallium
Ore:	Acanthite, Electrum, Silver, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite
Gangue:	Calcite, Cassiterite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Clay, Covellite, Digenite, Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sericite, Sphalerite, Stannite
Discovery year:	1987

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Medium
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1988 - PRESENT (9/92)
First production started:	1988

Geology

Host rock:	Favret Formation;Panther Canyon Formation;Augusta Mountain Formation
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	Faults
Alteration processes:	Argillization, Silification, Manganese Alteration. See Geology Comments.

References

MRDS	W700450
DEP	10085018
Reference	{Deposit:: EMMONS, D.L, 1989, THE COVE GOLD-SILVER DISCOVERY, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, ORAL PRESENTATION AT 118TH ANNUAL MEETING OF AIME, LAS VEGAS, MARCH 2.}{Deposit:: EMMONS, D.L., AND COYLE, R.D., 1988, ECHO BAY DETAILS EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES AT ITS COVE DEPOSIT IN NEVADA; MINING ENGINEERING,, AUGUST, 1988, P. 791-794.}{Deposit:: NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 157, ITEM 12, UNPUBLISHED REPORT BY ECHO BAY MINES, AND NUMEROUS PRESS CLIPPINGS.}{Deposit:: BONHAM, H.F., 1988, NBMG MAP 91 AND IN NBMG MI-1987.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JUNE, 1988, P. 43.}{Deposit:: NBMG, 1994, MI-1993}{Production:: 1988 FIGURES: EMMONS, D.L., 1989, THE COVE GOLD-SILVER DISCOVERY, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, ORAL PRESENTATION AT 118TH ANNUAL MEETING OF AIME, LAS VEGAS, MARCH 2. NBMG MI-1993}{Reserve-Resource:: BONHAM, H.F., 1988 NBMG MI-1993}
Reporter	Paidakovich, Matthew E., La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.), Li, Zhiping (Moyer, Lorre A.)