Mine detail: Lago Deposit

Previously called 'Bear Copper DepositBear prospectLagomarsino Ranch prospect'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.01491, -119.18459

Resource(M)

Primary: Copper, Molybdenum
Secondary: Silver, Gold
Ore: Chalcopyrite, Bornite, Molybdenite
Gangue: Pyrite
Discovery year: 1961

Production

Operation type: Underground
Deposit type: Porphyry copper
Production size: None
Development status: Prospect

Geology

Host type:Quartz Monzonite,Porphyry,Granodiorite,Diorite
Associated type:Porphyry
Structure:faults

References

MRDSN000424
DEP10310388
Reference{Deposit:: Proffett, J.M., 1967, Progress Report on the Bear-Lagomarsino area, Yerington District, Lyon County, Nevada: Anaconda Company Report, 31p..}{Deposit:: Wilson, G.E., 1978, Data exchange with Phelps Dodge on the Bear-Lagomarsino area: Anaconda Company Report, 28p.}{Deposit:: John, D.A., and Sherlock, M.G., 1991, Map Showing Mines and Prospects in the Reno 1 by 2 Quadrangle, Nevada and California, USGS MF-2154, Site #P3}{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:: Jurassic Magmatism and Metal Deposits in Western Nevada, 2002, Spring Field Trip Guidebook, Geological Society of Nevada Special Publication No. 35.}{Deposit:: Lowe, Raney, and Norberg, Principal Deposits of Strategic and Critical Minerals in Nevada; USBM IC-9035.}{Deposit:: Stoddard, C., And J. A. Carpenter. Mineral Resources Of Storey And Lyon Counties, Nevada. Nv Bureau Of Mines And Geol. Bulletin 49, 1950, P. 89.}{Deposit:: World Mining (San Francisco) Wha* Going On In World Mining - United States: Nevada; Yerington District Will Be A Major Future Porphyry Copper Producer. V. 29, No. 3, 1976, P. 82.}{Deposit:: Einaudi, M.T., 1982, Description of skarns associated with porphyry copper plutons; in Titley, S. R., ed., Advances in Geology of the Porphyry Copper Deposits, Southwest North America, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, p. 139-183.}{Deposit:: Dilles, J.H. and Wright, J.E., 1988, The chronology of Early Mesozoic arc magmatism in the Yerington District, Nevada, and its regional implications; Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 644-652.}{Deposit:: Albino, G.V., 1995, Porphyry copper deposits of the Great Basin?Nevada, Utah, and adjacent California, in Pierce, F.W., and Bolm, J.G., eds, Porphyry copper deposits of the American Cordillera: Tucson, Arizona Geological Society Digest 20, p. 267?296.}{Deposit:: Dilles, J.H., and Proffett, J.M., 1995, Metallogenesis of the Yerington batholith, Nevada, in Pierce, F.W., and Bolm, J.G., eds., Porphyry copper deposits of the American Cordillera: Tucson, Arizona Geological Society Digest 20, p. 306?315.}{Reserve-Resource:: World Mining (San Francisco) Anaconda - Atlantic Richfield Must Divest Cu Reserves. V. 32. No. 5, 1979, P. 65.}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G., Ridenour, James, Doebrich, J.L., Moyer, Lorre A., Marcus, S., Anderson, Claire