| Lat / long: | 39.80407, -118.20403 |
| 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 |
| Operation type: | Surface-Underground |
| Deposit type: | FAULT ZONE |
| Production size: | Small |
| Development status: | Producer |
| 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 |
| 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. |