Mine detail: Shale Pit Mine

Previously called 'Gold Shale ClaimSlate Creek DepositSteigmeyer Property'

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Location

Lat / long:

38.67743, -117.08342

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Antimony, Tungsten
Ore:	Gold, Pyrite, Calcite
Gangue:	Pyrite

Production

Operation type:	Surface
Deposit type:	Carlin-type disseminated gold
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1950
Last production ended:	1971

Geology

Host rock:	Zanzibar Limestone
Host type:	Shale,Claystone,Limestone
Associated type:	Welded Tuff
Structure:	Attitudes of axial planes of folds in the thrust plate trend N 80E, 70SE.
Alteration processes:	Alteration consists of bleaching and argillization of tuffs.

References

MRDS	M231742
DEP	10310495
Reference	{Deposit:: Shawe, D. R, 1977, Mineral Resource Potential of the Round Mountain Quadrangle, USGS Map MF-834.}{Deposit:: Kleinhampl, F.J. and Ziony, J.I., Geology and Mineral Deposits of Northern Nye Co.: Nev. Bur. of Mines and Geology, Bulletin.}{Deposit:: Foster, R. L. 1971, Gold Deposits at Slate Creek, Northern Nye County,Nevada: Econ. Geol.,vol. 66, p. 965-966}{Deposit:: Shawe, D.R., and Hoffman, J. D., 2003, Maps showing the distribution and abundance of gold, silver, mercury, arsenic, and antimony in rock samples from part of the southern Toquima Range and adjacent areas, Nye Couty, Nevada; USGS Map MF 2327-C.}{Deposit:: Bonham, 1986, 1989, 1991}{Deposit:: Davis and Tingley, 1999}{Deposit:: Tingley and Quade, 1986}{Deposit:: United States Bureau of Land Management, 1978k, 1999a}{Deposit:: United States Bureau of Mines, 1995}{Deposit:: United States Geological Survey, 1971h}{Deposit:: Tingley, 1998}
Reporter	Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph), La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.), LaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.