Mine detail: Buffalo Valley Mine

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Location

Lat / long:

40.60379, -117.24789

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold, Silver
Secondary:	Copper
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Nickel
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Gold, Hematite, Limonite, Malachite
Gangue:	Biotite, Clinozoisite, Diopside, Epidote, Quartz
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1916

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1924-1935; 1937-1941; 1951; 1986-1990
First production started:	1924
Last production ended:	1990

Geology

Host rock:	Havallah Formation
Host type:	Quartzite
Associated rock:	Unknown;Unknown;Unknown
Associated type:	Alluvium
Structure:	Golconda Thrust, The Havallah Sequence Of The Buffalo Valley Mine Has A Homoclinal Appearance. With Certain Exceptions, Beds Strike Nw To Slightly East Of North And Generally Dip 45-65 Sw Or West. Buffalo Valley Mine Is Situated In A Fault Block That Is Bounded On The East By The Western Range-Bounding Fault Of Battle Mountain And On The West By Another West-Dipping Normal Fault, Which Is Known In Mine Terminology As The Front Fault.
Alteration processes:	Contact Metamorphism, Endoskarn, Potassic Alteration, Prograde Skarn, Retrograde Skarn. See Geology Comments.

References

MRDS	M231308
DEP	10106923
Reference	{Deposit:: ROBERTS, R.J., AND ARNOLD, D.C., ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES, NEVADA: U.S.G.S. PROF PAPER 459-B.}{Deposit:: QUADE, J./ BENTZ, J.; FIELD EXAM MAY 11, 1982}{Deposit:: SEEDORFF, E., BAILEY, C. R. G., KELLEY, D., AND PARKS, W., 1991, BUFFALO VALLEY MINE: A PORPHYRY-RELATED GOLD DEPOSIT, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, IN BUFFA, R. AND COYNER, A., EDS., GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE GREAT BASIN - FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK COMPENDIUM, THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEVADA, RENO, P. 969-987.}{Deposit:: HORIZON GOLD SHARES INC., ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1987.}{Deposit:: HORIZON GOLD SHARES INC., ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1988.}{Deposit:: HORIZON GOLD SHARES INC., ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1989.}{Deposit:: HORIZON GOLD SHARES INC., FORM 10-K FOR 1990.}{Deposit:: HORIZON GOLD SHARES INC., FORM 10-K FOR 1991.}{Deposit:: NBMG, 1994, MI-1993}{Production:: ANNUAL PRODUCTION FOR FISCAL YEARS 1986/87, 1987/88, 1988/89: HORIZON GOLD SHARES INC., ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1989. 1924-1951 CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION: ROBERTS, R.J., AND ARNOLD, D.C., ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES, NEVADA: U.S.G.S. PROF PAPER 459-B. 1986-1990 CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION: HORIZON GOLD SHARES INC., FORM 10-K FOR 1991. MI-1993}
Reporter	La Pointe, D. D., Martin, Paul (Tingley, J.V.), Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.), Li, Zhiping (Moyer, Lorre A.)