Mine detail: Sandman Project

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Location

Lat / long: 41.02978, -117.94074

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Ore: Gold, Electrum, Petzite
Gangue: Quartz, Adularia
Orebody form: tabular to iregular
Discovery year: 1900

Production

Operation type: Surface
Deposit type: epithermal gold deposit
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
Production years: early 1900s to the 1940s
First production started: 1925
Last production ended: 1940

Geology

Host type:Tuff,Mixed Clastic/Volcanic Rock
Structure:Bedding plane faults and fractures that crosscut bedding,
Alteration processes:Silicification

References

MRDSD011054
DEP10310414
Reference{Deposit:: NBMG Map 91, 2nd, 3rd; Santa Fe Company Co. Report 1998? in GSN SP31, 1999}{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, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 59, 154 p.}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.