Mine detail: Baxter Spring Prospect

Previously called 'Ralston Valley Claims'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.43826, -117.11786

Resource(B)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Barium-Barite, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Zinc
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Quartz, Limonite, Hematite, Barite
Orebody form:	tabular

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Deposit type:	veins/shear zones
Production size:	None
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Gold Hill quartzite
Host type:	Limestone,Shale,Siltstone,Quartzite
Associated type:	Granite,Basalt
Structure:	Thrust faults and steeply dipping normal faults cut the rocks in the mineralized area.
Alteration processes:	Host rocks are pervasively silicified and clay-altered, especially in structural zones.

References

MRDS	M233567
DEP	10310368
Reference	{Deposit:: Davis and Tingley, 1999}{Deposit:: Gardiner, 1990}{Deposit:: Gardiner and Giancola, 1991}{Deposit:: Mason and others, 1996}{Deposit:: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, MI-1991-2004.}{Deposit:: Quade, 1985a}{Deposit:: Tingley, 1998}{Deposit:: Tingley and Quade, 1986}{Deposit:: United States Bureau of Land Management,1978u}{Deposit:: United States Geological Survey, 1987b}{Deposit:: Tingley, J.V., 1981, Report on field examination of July, 1971.}{Deposit:: Nye County Courthouse Records, 1980}{Deposit:: NBMG, MI-1993-MI 2004}{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:: Golconda Resources Ltd. news release, 7/13/98.}
Reporter	La Pointe, D. D., Li, Zhiping (Moyer, Lorre A.), LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.