Mine detail: Golden Sage Project

Previously called 'Central ZoneMain Zone'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.99847, -118.11745

Resource(M)

Primary:	Silver, Gold
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Antimony, Mercury
Ore:	Gold, Electrum, Petzite
Gangue:	Quartz, Adularia
Orebody form:	tabular to irregular
Discovery year:	1900

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Deposit type:	adularia- sericite or low sulfidation epithermal gold
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	early 1900s to the 1940s
First production started:	1925

Geology

Host type:	Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Structure:	Mineralization is controlled by bedding plane faults and fractures that crosscut bedding,
Alteration processes:	pervasive alteration

References

DEP	10310413
Reference	{Deposit:: NBMG MI-97}{Deposit:: Amer. Mines (1998), 1997}{Deposit:: International Mining News, 12 Mar 1997}{Deposit:: Blue Desert Mining Inc. press release, 5/14/97}{Deposit:: Denver Mining Record, 3/12/97}{Deposit:: D.A. Davis and J. V. Tingley, 1999, Gold and silver resources in Nevada, NBMG Map 120}{Deposit:: Bowell, R.J., Hunerlach, M.P., Parshley, J., and Sears, S., 2000, The Ten Mile mining district, Winnemucca, Nevada: Geology, mineralogy and supergene gold enrichment, in Cluer, J.K., Price, J.G., Struhsacker, E.M., Hardyman, R.F., and Morris, C.L., eds., Geology and ore Deposits 2000: The Great Basin and Beyond: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, Reno/Sparks, May 2000, p. 349-363.}{Deposit:: Willden, R., 1964, Geology and mineral deposits of Humboldt County,}{Deposit:: Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 59, 154 p.}
Reporter	LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.