| Lat / long: | 40.84988, -119.50102 |
| Primary: | Gold, Silver |
| Secondary: | Lead, Copper |
| Tertiary: | Mercury, Arsenic, Antimony |
| Ore: | Gold, Galena, Tennantite |
| Gangue: | Quartz, Marcasite, Adularia, Calcite, Pyrite |
| Orebody form: | irregular |
| Discovery year: | 1938 |
| Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
| Deposit type: | epithermal gold system |
| Production size: | None |
| Development status: | Producer |
| Host type: | Rhyolite,Basalt,Hornfels,Metasedimentary Rock,Metavolcanic Rock,Conglomerate |
| Associated type: | Granodiorite |
| Structure: | Basin and Range type extensional faulting, Shear zones; range-front fault on west side of the Granite Range. |
| Alteration processes: | A skarn-hornfels zone is developed adjacent to a Cretaceous age granitic intrusive body. Widespread argillic alteration is developed in poorly exposed Mid-Miocene flow-banded rhyolitic volcanic rocks. |
| MRDS | M242563 |
| DEP | 10310432 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: Jones, R.B., 1984, Field examination, 7-8-84}{Deposit:: Bonham, H.L., Jr, 1969, NBMG Bull 70,p. 59.}{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:: Margolis, Jacob, Marlowe, Karl, 1996, Middle Miocene, selenide-rich, low-sulfidation, epithermal gold mineralization, Mountain View District, northwestern Nevada; Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, vol.28, no.7, pp.93.}{Deposit:: NBMG MI-95; MI-96; MI-97 and MI-2002}{Deposit:: Vista Gold website, 2004}{Deposit:: Amer. Mines (1998), 1997} |
| Reporter | LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G. |