Mine detail: Jerritt Canyon

Previously called 'Stump Claims - 0320070992Cal Group - 0320070983Lost and Found - 0320070473Snow Canyon Mine - 0320070350Ed Claims - 0320070984Graphite Claims - 0320070985Hv Claims - 0320070987Ne Claims - 0320070988Hidden Hills Mine - 0320070533Pc Claims - 0320070989Russ ClaimsSona Claims - 0320070991Suzy Nos. 1-96 - 0320070993Ts Claims - 0320070994Jerritt Canyon Joint VentureBurns Basin Sec 16 - 0320071127Birds Eye Prospect - 0320070314Greenstone Claims - 0320070986Burns Basin Sec 21 - 0320071126Aa Claims - 0320070979Black Beauty Nos. 1-12 - 0320070061Birdseye/Bullseye Cl. - 0320070980Burns Basin Mine - 0320070969Arana Claims - 0320070980Big Jay-Big Mike - 0320070981Tus Nos. 1-75Pie Claims - 0320070990Sue Nos. 1-48Jerritt Canyon ProjectE. Bell MineJerritt Canyon Mine and MillGenerator HillsBell-FreeportWd Nos. 1-10 - 0320070995Enfield BellWh Claims - 0320070996Wt Claims - 0320070998Marlboro Canyon Gold Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.3455, -115.99512

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Mercury, Silver
Other material: Arsenopyrite, Barite, Calcite, Cinnabar, Gold, Orpiment, Pyrite, Quartz, Realgar, Stibnite
Discovery year: 1972

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Development status: Plant
First production started: 1981

Geology

References

MRDSM242937
MAS320070879
DEP10246511
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ReporterBuckingham, David A.