Mine detail: Jarbidge Gold Prospect

Previously called 'Covers the historic PavlakBourneBlusterElkoro Mines'

<< Back to the map

Location

Lat / long:

41.85212, -115.42758

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Ore:	Gold, Argentite, Adularia, Sericite, Fluorite
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	tabular
Discovery year:	1909

Production

Operation type:	Underground
Deposit type:	sheeted vein zone
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1910-1930s?
First production started:	1910
Last production ended:	1930

Geology

Host rock:	Jarbidge Rhyolite
Host type:	Rhyolite,Tuff,Ash-Flow Tuff,Quartzite
Structure:	faults
Alteration processes:	Hydrothermal alteration is widespread and intense along a north-south trend. Chlorite-epidote-carbonate alteration with associated veinlets of barren quartz is pervasive within the lower part of the rhyolite pile and underlying conglomerates. Later adularia-sericite alteration is widespread in the middle portion of the Jarbidge Rhyolite and occurs as envelopes to veins. Higher levels of the system have local argillic alteration with chalcedonic veinlets. Kaolinization, silicification, and pyritization of host rock are prevalent in mineralized areas.

References

DEP	10310339
Reference	{Deposit:: Schrader, F.C.,(1912),A Reconnaissance of the Jarbidge, Contact, and Elk Mountain Mining Districts, Elko County, Nev: U.S.G.S. Bull 497.}{Deposit:: Schrader, F.C.,(1923), The Jarbidge Mining District, Nevada; U.S.G.S. Open File Rept. 1976-56.}{Deposit:: Fairbank and *yrne, J.F.,(1911) Jarbidge Mining District Map}{Deposit:: Coats, Robert R. , 1964, Geology of the Jarbidge Quadrangle, Nevada-Idaho; U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin, Report: B 1141-M, pp.M1-M24.}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.}
Reporter	LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.