Mine detail: Fondaway Canyon Mine

Previously called 'Colorado DepositReed DepositSouth Mouth DepositPaperweight-Half MoonHamburger Hill'

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Location

Lat / long:

39.80407, -118.20403

Resource(B)

Primary:	Gold
Secondary:	Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic, Antimony, Mercury, Barium-Barite, Tungsten
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Quartz, Pyrite, Arsenopyrite, Scheelite, Cinnabar, Stibnite, Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite, Tennantite, Tetrahedrite, Pyrrhotite
Orebody form:	TABULAR
Discovery year:	1870

Production

Operation type:	Surface-Underground
Deposit type:	FAULT ZONE
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Grass Valley Formation, Boyer Ranch Formation
Host type:	Siltstone,Phyllite,Slate,Quartzite,Marble,Limestone
Associated type:	Granite,Aplite
Structure:	NE-trending faults, Low-angle thrust faults have emplaced Jurassic limestone and quartzites over the earlier host rocks. Basin and Range normal faulting has produced the north- to northeast-trending horst block that is the Stillwater Range
Tectonic:	Basin and Range
Alteration processes:	SILICIFICATION

References

MRDS	M242934
DEP	10310504
Reference	{Deposit:: Tenneco Minerals Company, 1989, Draft Environmental Assessment for the Tenneco Minerals Company Fondaway Canyon Project}{Deposit:: NBMG MI-1984-MI-1997}{Deposit:: Press Clippings, 1983-1990}{Deposit:: Summex Mining Company Press Release, 4/96}{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:: Strachan, Donald, 2003, Proposals to upgrade South Pit, Deep Dive, Half Moon, Paperweight, and Hamburger Hill to a measured gold resource Fondaway Canyon, Churchill County, Nevada; technical report available online at:http://www.royalstandardminerals.com/sites/default/files/shared/Fondaway-NI43-101.pdf}
Reporter	LaPointe, D.D. , Schruben, Paul G.