Mine detail: Toiyabe-Saddle Deposit

Previously called '401 PitMiddle PitSouth Pit'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.038, -116.7357

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Ore:	Gold
Orebody form:	irregular

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Deposit type:	Distal Disseminated
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Wenban Limestone, Roberts Mountain Formation
Host type:	Siltstone,Carbonate
Associated type:	Rhyolite,Latite
Structure:	northwest-trending thrust faulting, Regional structural analysis and project-scale geologic data indicate that a north-northwest trending range-front fault zone passes through the property.
Alteration processes:	Alteration in the mine area includes; silicification, decalcification, minor oxidization and remobilization of carbon.

References

MRDS	W700419
DEP	10310330
Reference	{Deposit:: Staff, 1988, Directory of Nevada Mine Operations Active During Calendar Year 1987: Nevada Division of Mine Inspection, 84 p.}{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:: Golden Oasis website, 2006: http://www.goldenoasis.ca/s/Toiyabe.asp}{Deposit:: NEV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1991, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPEERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1990, P. 54.}{Deposit:: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. SPECIAL PUBLICATION 10, 1990, P. 11.}{Ownership:: AMERICAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1996, P138.}
Reporter	Paidakovich, Matthew E., LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G., Lowe, Nathan T., Ridenour, James