Mine detail: Lone Tree/Stonehouse Mine Area

Previously called 'Wayne Zone (Lone Tree)NW-1East ZoneSoutheast Area (Stonehouse)'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.83351, -117.21067

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Arsenic, Antimony, Mercury, Copper
Ore: Gold, Arsenopyrite, Pyrite
Gangue: Chalcopyrite, Marcasite
Orebody form: tabular to irregular
Discovery year: 1989

Production

Operation type: Surface
Deposit type: sediment-hosted gold
Production size: Medium
Development status: Producer
Production years: 1991 - present (2005)
First production started: 1991
Last production ended: 2005

Geology

Host rock:Valmy Formation, Antler Sequence, Havallah Sequence
Host type:Quartzite,Conglomerate,Sandstone,Siltstone,Chert,Basalt,Porphyry
Associated type:Porphyry
Alteration processes:Dominant alteration types affecting the host rocks are silicification, argillization, and pyritization.

References

MRDSRE00041
DEP10310324
Reference{Deposit:: Braginton, B., 1992, Lone Tree Mine, abstract in April, 1992 Geological Society of Nevada Newsletter.}{Deposit:: NBMG Map 91, 3rd edition.}{Deposit:: Braginton, B., 1992, Lone Tree Mine, oral presentation at April 17, 1992 meeting of the Geological Society of Nevada.}{Deposit:: Mining Journal/Montagu Mining Finance, Mining Database, 8/10/91.}{Deposit:: American Mines 1996-2001}{Deposit:: NBMG, MI-1989-MI-2003}{Deposit:: Nevada Division of Minerals, 1994}{Deposit:: The Mining Record, Aug 4,1993}{Deposit:: McGibbon, D.H., 1992, The Stonehouse Gold Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada, abstract in April, 1992 Geological Society of Nevada Newsletter.}{Deposit:: McGibbon, D.H., 1992, The Stonehouse Gold Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada, Oral Presentation at April 17, 1992 meeting of the Geological Society of Nevada.}{Deposit:: NBMG, 1994, MI-1993}{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.}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.