Mine detail: Battle Mountain Copper Basin

Previously called 'Copper Canyon Mine - Duval Corp.Copper Canyhon Tungsten DepositCopper Basin Mine - Duval Corp.'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.5041, -117.16905

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Gold, Silver
Other material: Chrysocolla, Cuprite, Malachite
Discovery year: 1869

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Plant
First production started: 1897

Geology

References

MAS320150779
DEP10295563
Reference{Deposit:: ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, THIS MONTH IN MINING: DUVAL}{Deposit:: EXPECTS FULL PRODUCTION AT NEVADA PROPERTY IN 1967, V167,}{Deposit:: #7, 1966, P100.}{Deposit:: GILMOUR, P., GRADES AND TONNAGES OF PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS}{Deposit:: PAPER IN, ADVANCES IN GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER}{Deposit:: DEPOSITS, SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA, ED. BY, S.R. TITLEY}{Deposit:: UNIV. AIR. PRESS, TUCSON,AZ, 1982, P14.}{Deposit:: ROBERTS, R.J. & D.C. ARNOLD, ORE DEPOSITS IN THE ANTLER PEAK}{Deposit:: QUADRANGLE, HUMBOLDT & LANDER COUNTIES, NEVADA, USGS PP#}{Deposit:: 459-B, 1965, PP. B1-B94.}{Deposit:: THEODORE, T.G., D.W. BLAKE & E.L. KRECHMER, GEOLOGY OF THE}{Deposit:: COPPER CANYON DEPOSITS, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, PAPER IN,}{Deposit:: ADVANCE IN GEOLOGY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS,}{Deposit:: SOUTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA, ED. BY S.R. TITLEY, UNIV AIR}{Deposit:: PRESS, TUCSON AZ, 1982, PP. 543-550.}{Deposit:: TIPPETT, M.C., THE GEOLOGY OF THE COPPER BASIN ORE DEPOSTIS}{Deposit:: LANDER CONTY, NEVADA, MS THESES, UNIV. NEV, RENO, NEV,}{Deposit:: 1967, 30PP}{Deposit:: VAN DENBURGH, A.S. RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN}{Deposit:: LANDER COUNTY, NEFVADA, BUREAU OF MINES IC7043, 1939, 83P.}{Deposit:: STEWART, J.H., E.H. MCKEE, & H.K. STAGER, GEOLOGY OF MINERAL}{Deposit:: DEPOSTIS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES}{Deposit:: AND GEOLOGY, BULLT 88, 1977, 106PP.}{Deposit:: THEODORE, T.G. & J.N. BATCHELDER, STABLE ISOTOPES & GEOLOGY}{Deposit:: OF THE COPPER CANYON PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS, SOCIETY OF}{Deposit:: ECONOMIC GEOLOGIST, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY BULLT. V71, #3, 1976,}{Deposit:: PAGE 703.}{Deposit:: SKILLING*MINING REVIEW, V 56, #20, 1967, P14.}{Deposit:: SKILLING*MINING REVIEW, V 68, #3, 1979, P8.}{Reserve-Resource:: GEOLOGY AND CHECHEMISTRY OF THE WEST ORE BODY AND ASSOCIATED}{Reserve-Resource:: SKARNS, COPPER CANYON PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSITS, LANDER}{Reserve-Resource:: COUNTY, NEVADA, USGS PP# 798-C, 1978, 85PP.}{Reserve-Resource:: SAYERS, R.W., M.C. TIPPETT, & E.D. FIELDS, MINING}{Reserve-Resource:: ENGINEERING, VOL20, #3, 1968, PP. 55-62.}
ReporterBuckingham, David A.