Mine detail: Jerritt Canyon Gold Mine

Previously called 'Enfield Bell MineGeneratorAlchemMarlboro Deposits'

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Location

Lat / long: 41.4088, -115.995

Resource(B)

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver, Mercury
Tertiary: Antimony, Barium-Barite, Arsenic
Ore: Gold, Quartz, Pyrite, Limonite, Clay, Stibnite, Barite, Realgar, Orpiment
Gangue: Calcite
Orebody form: tabular; pods; beds.
Discovery year: 1918

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: replacement
Production size: Medium
Development status: Producer
First production started: 1918

Geology

Host rock:Hanson Creek Formation, Roberts Mountains Formation
Host type:Limestone,Siltstone
Structure:breccia zone, faults, fractures
Alteration processes:silicification, oxidation of sulphides, bleaching, argillization, decalcification

References

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Reference{Deposit:: Mks, Welb Ams File (1979) USBM(?)}{Deposit:: Hawkins, Robert B., (1973), The geology and mineralization of the Jerritt Creek area, Northern Independence Mts, Nev., Idaho State Univ, MS Thesis 104 p.}{Deposit:: Garside, L. J.; Bentz, J.; Smith, P., Brooks, S., 1982, Field examination and mine tour report, 8/13/82.}{Deposit:: Hawkins, R. B., 1982, Discovery of the Bell gold mine, Jerritt District, Elko Co., NV: Mining Congress Journal, Feb 1982, P. 28-32.}{Deposit:: Birak, D.J., and Hawkins, R.J., 1985, The geology of the Enfield Bell Mine and Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada, in Tooker, E.W., ed., Geologic characteristics of sediment- and volcanic-hosted disseminated gold deposits-search for an occurrence model: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1646, p. 95-105. .}{Deposit:: Doe, T.C., Birak, D.J., and Dahl, A.R., 1990, Geology and exploration of the Burns Basin and Pattani Springs orebodies, Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada [unpub. report]: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology mining district file #79A.}{Deposit:: Folger, H.W., Snee, L.W., Mehnert, H.H., and Hofstra, A.H., 1996,Significance of K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar dates from mica in Carlin-type gold deposits: Evidence from the Jerritt Canyon District, Nevada, in Coyner, A.R., and Fahey, P.L., eds., Geology and Ore Deposits of the American Cordillera: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, Reno-Sparks, Nevada, April 1995, p. 41-60.}{Deposit:: Hawkins, R.B., 1984, Discovery of the Bell Mine, Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada, in Wilkins, J., Jr., ed., Gold and silver deposits of the Basin and Range province western U.S.A.: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. XV, p. 53-58.}{Deposit:: Hofstra, A.H., 1994, Geology and genesis of the Carlin-type gold deposits in the Jerritt Canyon district, Nevada [Ph.D. thesis]: University of Colorado, Boulder, 719 p.}{Deposit:: Hofstra, A.H., and Rowe, W.A., 1987, Sediment-hosted disseminated gold mineralization at Jerritt Canyon, Nevada, II--Jasperoid paragenesis and occurrence of gold: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 19, p. 704.}{Deposit:: Hofstra, A.H., Daly, W.E., Birak, D.J., and Doe, T.C., 1991, Geologic framework and genesis of Carlin-type gold deposits in the Jerritt Canyon district, Nevada, U.S.A., in Ladeira, E.A., ed., BRAZILGOLD*1, The economics, geology, geochemistry and genesis of gold deposits: A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 77-87.}{Deposit:: Hofstra, A.H., Landis, G.P., Rye, R.O., Birak, D.J., Dahl, A.R., Daly, W.E., and Jones, M.B., 1989, Geology and origin of the Jerritt Canyon sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposits, Nevada, in Schindler, K.S., ed., U.S. Geological Survey Research on Mineral Resources-1989, Programs and Abstracts: Circular 1035, p. 30-32.}{Deposit:: Hofstra, A.H., Leventhal, J.S., Northrop, H.R., Landis, G.P., Rye, R.O., Birak, D.J., and Dahl, A.R., 1991, Genesis of sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposits by fluid mixing and sulfidation: chemical reaction path modeling of ore depositional processes documented in the Jerritt Canyon District, Nevada: Geology, v. 19, no. 1, p. 36-40.}{Deposit:: Hofstra, A.H., Northrop, H.R., Rye, R.O., Landis, G.P., and Birak, D.J., 1988, Origin of sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposits by fluid mixing: Evidence from jasperoids in the Jerritt Canyon gold district, Nevada, USA, in Goode, A.D.T., and Bosma, L.I., eds., Geological Society of Australia, Proceedings of Bicentennial Gol*88: Economic Geology, Abstract Series no. 22, p. 284-289.}{Deposit:: Northrop, H.R., Rye, R.O., Landis, G.P., Lustwerk, R., Jones, M.B., and Daly, W.E., 1987, Sediment-hosted disseminated gold mineralization at Jerritt Canyon, Nevada, V-Stable isotope geochemistry and a model of ore deposition: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Abstracts with programs, v. 19, p. 791. Phinisey, J.D., 1995, Petrography, alteration, and mineralization of igneous dikes of the Jerritt Canyon District, Elko County, Nevada [M.S. thesis]: University of Nevada, Reno, 173 p.}{Deposit:: Phinisey, J.D., Hofstra, A.H., Snee, L.W., Roberts, T.T., Dahl, A.R., and Loranger, R.J., 1996, Evidence for multiple episodes of igneous and hydrothermal activity and constraints on the timing of gold mineralization, Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada, in Coyner, A.R., and Fahey, P.L., eds., Geology and Ore Deposits of the American Cordillera: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, Reno, April 1995, p. 15-39.}{Deposit:: Weideman, W.L., Dahl, A.R., and MacDonald, G.D., 1991, The geology of the MAP area gold deposits, Enfield Bell mine, Jerritt Canyon district, Elko County, Nevada, in Raines, G.L., Lisle, R.E., Shafer, R.W, and Wilkinson, W.H., eds., Geology and ore deposits in the Great Basin, symposium proceedings: Geological Society of Nevada, Reno, v. 2, p. 603-606.}{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.}
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