Mine detail: Bellview Deposit

Previously called '7-11 Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.08659, -115.63257

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Silver
Secondary: Lead
Ore: Gold, Galena
Gangue: Quartz
Orebody form: veinlets
Discovery year: 1988

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: Pluton-related
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer
Production years: 1950s (lead-silver)

Geology

Host rock:Eldorado Dolomite, Secret Canyon Formation
Host type:Carbonate
Associated rock:Bald Mountain Stock and associated intrusive rocks
Associated type:Granite
Structure:North- striking fractures dip steeply east or west, Gold mineralization occurs near an anticlinal axis.
Alteration processes:Host rocks have been altered to jasperoid.

References

MRDSM031227
MAS320330310
DEP10310445
Reference{Deposit:: Hose, Blake, Smith, 1976, Geology and Mineral Resources of White Pine Co., Nev., Nev Bureau Mines Bull 85}{Deposit:: NBMG MI-1990 throughNBMG MI-2002}{Deposit:: BLM Claims Fiche, 1998}{Deposit:: NBMG OFR 83-1,2}{Deposit:: MASMILS 0320330310}{Deposit:: Ruby Lake Land Status, 1978}{Deposit:: Engineering and Mining Journal, March 1989}{Deposit:: Northern Miner, September, 1989BLM Claims Fiche, 1998}{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:: Jackson, Phil, 1991Geology of the Bellview Disseminated Gold Deposit, Whirte Pine County, Nevada, in Geology and ore deposits of the Great Basin; field trip guidebook compendium, eds. Buffa, Ruth H; Coyner, Alan R.}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D. , Schruben, Paul G.