| Lat / long: | 40.5369, -117.1472 |
| Primary: | Gold |
| Secondary: | Copper |
| Ore: | Gold |
| Orebody form: | tabular to irregular |
| Discovery year: | 1990 |
| Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
| Deposit type: | sediment-hosted gold in part; pluton-related in part |
| Production size: | Medium |
| Development status: | Producer |
| Production years: | 1994-2004 |
| First production started: | 1994 |
| Last production ended: | 2004 |
| Host rock: | Battle Formation, Harmony Formation, LU-1 of the Havallah Sequence, Granodiorite of Copper Canyon |
| Host type: | Sandstone,Conglomerate,Shale,Limestone,Chert,Granodiorite |
| Structure: | Golconda Thrust fault; Willow Creek Thrust fault, Virgin Fault. |
| Tectonic: | The Battle Mountain Mining District has been affected by two major thrust-faulting events: the Antler orogeny in late Devonian-early Mississippian, which emplaced rocks of the Roberts Mountain allochthon from the east, and the Golconda thrust during the Permo-Triassic Sonoma orogeny, which emplaced rocks from the west. An autochthonous block of rocks remains at the center of these tectonic events, and it contains the Penn-Perm Battle Formation, Antler Peak Limestone, and Edna Formation, which rocks often form the host rocks for mineralization in many of the Battle Mountain skarn deposits. |
| Alteration processes: | All rocks have been affected to some degree by contact metamorphism from the associated graniitc intrusions. The Copper Canyon granodiorite |
| MRDS | MP90060 |
| DEP | 10310321 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: California Mining Journal, Dec., 1992}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.}{Deposit:: Doebrich, Jeff, 1995, Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Antler Peak 7.5-minute quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada, NBMG Bull 109, 44 p.}{Deposit:: Denver Mining Record, 10/19/94}{Deposit:: Northern Miner, 10/17/94.}{Deposit:: NBMG MI-1994-2003.}{Deposit:: Geological Society of Nevada, 1999, Geology and Gold Mineralization of the Buffalo Valley Area, Northwestern Battle Mountain Trend; GSN Special Publication No. 31, 1999 Fall field trip Guidebook.}{Deposit:: Wendt, Clancy, 2004, Technical Report on the? ICBM/COPPER BASIN Property, Lander and Humboldt Counties, Nevada, Staccato Gold website, : http://www.staccatogold.com/i/pdf/icbm-43-101.pdf} |
| Reporter | LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G. |