Mine detail: Danner gold Property

Previously called 'Danner MinesRed Hawk MineBen H. Jackson Mine (earlier tungsten properties)'

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Location

Lat / long: 40.81683, -118.16848

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold, Tungsten
Secondary: Zinc
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Ore: Gold, Scheelite, Epidote, Quartz, Sphalerite, Pyroxene, Sericite, Clay, Molybdenite
Gangue: Garnet
Orebody form: tabular to irregular

Production

Operation type: Surface-Underground
Deposit type: tactite; tungsten gold skarn
Production size: Small
Development status: Producer
Production years: 1917-1950; 1960s-1970s
First production started: 1917
Last production ended: 1950

Geology

Host rock:Auld Lang Syne Group
Host type:Shale,Quartzite
Associated type:Aplite
Alteration processes:The intrusions often exhibit sericite-clay type alteration. A moderately sized stock, immediately southwest of the Danner Mines, exhibits a fresh granodiorite basal exposure and grades upwards into a quartz-rich, pervasively sericitized leucogranite cupola.

References

MRDSM060312
DEP10310574
Reference{Deposit:: Johnson, M.G., 1977, Geology and Mineral Deposits of Pershing County, Nevada: NBMG Bull. 89}{Deposit:: Johnson and Benson, 1963, Tungsten Resources of Nevada: USBM}{Deposit:: Klepper, M.R., 1943, unpublished report}{Deposit:: Stager, H. K. and Tingley, 1988, Tungsten Deposits in Nevada, NBMG Bull. 105.}{Deposit:: Gardiner and Giancola, 1991.}{Deposit:: Giancola, 1995, 1996}{Deposit:: Tingley, 1998}{Deposit:: United States Bureau of Land Management, 1975c, 1999a}{Deposit:: United States Geological Survey, 1982.}{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.}{Deposit:: Ronald H. Thole and Douglas W. Prihar, 1999, Geology of the Eugene Mountains, northwestern Nevada, NBMG Map 115.}{Deposit:: Melbye, Charles, 1956, Geologic and Economic Evaluation of the Danner Tungsten Properties, Peshing Count, Nevada; Item 58, NBMG Mining District file 282.}
ReporterLaPointe, D.D., Schruben, Paul G.