Mine detail: Bell Mountain Mine

Previously called 'Bell Mountain HomestakeStockton Mine'

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Location

Lat / long: 39.18019, -118.13178

Resource(M)

Primary: Silver, Gold
Secondary: Copper, Lead
Tertiary: Manganese
Ore: Electrum, Argentite, Silver, Cerargyrite, Acanthite, Barite, Fluorite, Rhodochrosite, Montmorillonite
Gangue: Adularia
Orebody form: tabular
Discovery year: 1905

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: VEIN
Production size: Small
Development status: Past Producer

Geology

Host type:Tuff,Rhyolite
Associated type:Andesite
Structure:Ne-striking faults, dipping south.
Alteration processes:Wallrock alteration consists of silicification, chloritization, and sericitization adjacent to veins.

References

MRDSM231017
DEP10310500
Reference{Deposit:: Willden, Ronald, and Speed, R.C., 1977, Geology and Mineral Deposits of Churchill County: NBMG Bull 83}{Deposit:: State Inspector of Mines, 1981, Directory of Nevada mining operations active during calendar year 1980}{Deposit:: Shamberger, H.A., 1973, The Story of Fairview; Historic Mining Camps of Nevada}{Deposit:: The Northern Miner 4/30/81, 8/27/81, 5/6/82, 7/29/82, 11/4/82, 4/16/81, 2/18/82}{Deposit:: Nev. Min. Assn. Bull., Jul. 1981}{Deposit:: The Mining Record, 6/30/82}{Deposit:: Namer Gold Min. Ind. News, 6/22/84}{Deposit:: The Mining Record, 5/1/85}{Deposit:: Bonham, H.F., 1986, NBMG Map 91}{Deposit:: Bonham, H.F., 1988, in NBMG MI-1987}{Deposit:: NBMG, 1994, MI-1993}{Deposit:: NBMG, 1995, MI-1994}{Deposit:: Minng Engineering, 9/82,p.1316}{Deposit:: ECU Gold Mining Company Inc. press release, 1/10/97}{Deposit:: NBMG Map 91,}{Deposit:: NBMG, 1998, MI-1997}{Deposit:: NBMG OFR 90-2, 3}{Deposit:: Amer. Mines (1998), 1997.}{Deposit:: Johnson, Joseph L., (editor), 1984, Precious metal districts in west-central Nevada; road log/field trip guidebook: Field trip 4; Candelaria Mine, Goldfield District, Tonopah District, and Bell Mountain Mine in Exploration for ore deposits of the North American Cordillera, Assoc. Explor. Geochemists, FT4, p.11.}{Deposit:: Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.}{Deposit:: Schrader, F.C., Unpublished report on the Carson Sink area, Nevada, 1947, NBMG Files}{Deposit:: Carpenter, E.E., 1916, Unpublished report and correspondence, File 7, Items 14,15.}{Deposit:: Globex Mining Enterprises Inc. press releases, 6/28/2004, 9/22/2004.}
ReporterFlynn, Patricia Dodd, LaPointe, D.D., Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.), Schruben, Paul G.