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Electrum from
Lone Tree Mine, Buffalo Mountain Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold var: Electrum
Formula:(Au,Ag)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Electrum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lone Tree Mine, Buffalo Mountain Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:283934
Long-form Identifier:1:3:283934:9
GUID (UUID V4):c8a56ea8-8a73-4783-8bf8-c3a87242f6ae
Nearest other occurrences of Electrum
12.3km (7.6 miles) Marigold mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
32.9km (20.5 miles) Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
34.3km (21.3 miles) Fortitude mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
40.3km (25.0 miles) Summer Camp pit, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
41.5km (25.8 miles) Hansen Creek Deposit, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
41.5km (25.8 miles) Turquoise Ridge Mine, Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
42.1km (26.1 miles) Turquoise Ridge Underground Mine (Getchell Underground; Hansen Creek pit), Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
42.1km (26.2 miles) Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
49.4km (30.7 miles) Winnemucca Mountain mine (Gold Hill Group), Winnemucca Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
51.7km (32.1 miles) Mule Canyon deposit, Shoshone Mountains, Nevada, USA
References
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Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Mineralization at the Lone Tree Mine, Battle Mountain District, Nevada Elizabeth A. Holley,1,† Justin...Michael J. Pribil3 1Department 2Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1600 Illinois...Abstract The Lone Tree deposit is located in the northern Battle Mountain mining district, Nevada. Prior to...to mine closure in 2006, Santa Fe Pacific Gold and Newmont produced 4.2 Moz of gold at an average grade...grade of 2.06 g/t at Lone Tree, primarily from the N-S– to NNW-SSE–striking Wayne zone. The ore is located
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to...MINERALIZATION ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised...216-mile-long stretch ofInterstate 80 from Reno to Battle Mountain traverses several major mineral belts which contain...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been...................................... 17 Battle Mountain-Gold Run porphyry trend................................................................... 18 Humboldt River porphyry tracL.........................
Report (issue)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...Field Office, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557-0047 2U.S. Geological Survey, Unit...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources (for example, the Humboldt River drainage...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tuscarora Au-Ag District: Eocene Volcanic-Hosted Epithermal Deposits in the Carlin Gold Region, Nevada STEPHEN...B. CASTOR,† Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID...Reno, Nevada 89511 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada, Reno...Reno, Nevada 89557 JEAN S. CLINE, Geoscience Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-4010...Mexico Bureau of Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 RICHARD
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103, pp. 759–782 Geology of the Cove Mine, Lander County, Nevada, and a Genetic Model for the McCoy-Cove...Inc., 240 South Rock Boulevard, Suite 117, Reno, Nevada 89502 TOMMY B. THOMPSON, Ralph J. Roberts Center...Geology, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557 DAVID L. EMMONS, Round Mountain Gold Corporation, P.O...Round Mountain, Nevada 89045 AND KEITH JONES Small Mine Development, P.O. Box 251, Battle Mountain, Nevada...Fish Creek Mountains, Lander County, Nevada. Through the end of mining in 2001, large-scale open-pit
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Some Current Research in Eastern Nevada and Western Utah by the U.S. Geological Survey...posters or oral presentations at a meeting in Elko, Nevada, on September 19 and 20, 1991, sponsored by the...the Elko Chapter of the Geological Society of Nevada. The purpose of the meeting was to present some of...activities of the U.S. Geological Survey in eastern Nevada and western Utah. Edited by Charles H. Thorman1...Volcanic Rocks at the Sleeper Gold-Silver Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, by J. Thomas Nash and Mark W. Bartlett
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magmatism in Gold Mineralization of the Carlin Trend, Nevada MICHAEL W. RESSEL,† DONALD C. NOBLE, Department...Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 CHRISTOPHER D. HENRY, Nevada Bureau of Mines and...Geology, Mail Stop 178, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557 AND WAYNE S. TRUDEL Newmont Gold...Gold Company, P.O. Box 669, Carlin, Nevada 89822 Abstract The Beast, low-grade (7.3 Mt @ 0.7 g/t), disseminated...disseminated Au deposit in the Carlin trend, Nevada, is unique among Carlin-type Au deposits in having
Report (issue)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GOLD METALLOGENY OF NORTHERN NEVADA Richard M. Tosdal editor Open-File Report 98-338-6...Contributions to the gold metallogeny of northern Nevada Preface R.M. Tbsdfl/.............................understanding the crustal structure near the Battle Mountain-Eureka mineral trend from geophysical constraints...Regional crustal structure beneath the Carlin Trend, Nevada, based on deep electrical geophysical measurements...and its relation to gold belts in north-central Nevada: Overview and progress report V.J.S. Grawc/i..
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Deposits in the People's Republic of China and in Nevada, USA Zhiping Li1 and Stephen G. Peters 2 Open-File...Economic Geology, MS-172, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047. (or Tianjin Geological Academy...Mackay School of Mines, MS-176, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Jift, AU, AS, sbin B, U...Deposits in the People's Republic of China and in Nevada, USA Zhiping Li1 and Stephen G. Peters 2 Open-File...Economic Geology, MS-172, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0047. (or Tianjin Geological 2 Academy
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Gold in Jasperoid, Elephant Head Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 2009 Geochemistry...Gold in Jasperoid, Elephant Head Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and GAIL M. JONES U.S....gold in jasperoid, Elephant Head area, Lander County, Nevada I Ted G. Theodore and Gail M. Jones. p. cm...ores-Geology-Nevada-Lander County. 2. JasperoidNevada-Lander County. 3. Geochemistry-Nevada-Lander County. I....Geologic map of the Elephant Head area, Lander County, Nevada In pocket FIGURES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8
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Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Wemer Lieber... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...type localities, and an alphabetical cross-index by mine name. T INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1976 a group
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said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely
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rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings here were...stone hammers, and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Slining Bureau reported at about the...desert region between Death Valley and Goff's Mining District, nearer the former, and that good samples were
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
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A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas...Chas. V. Averill, District Mining Engineer George John L. Gary, Mineral Technologist F. Bongard, Ore-Buyers'...C. Statistician and Curator O'Brien, Junior Mining Engineer (Librarian) Eldridge D. Drew, Geological...OF CONTENTS Page DISTRICT REPORTS OF MINING ENGINEERS 7 Sacramento Field District 7 San 7 Francisco
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______________________________ _ History of uranium mining and production ____________ _ Geologic setting...__________ - ___ - ________ -----------Central City district _____________________ ------Quartz Hill-upper...____________________________ _ West Flack mine __________________ _ ~ercer County mine ______________ -German and Belcher...Iron mine, by A. A. Drake, Jr ___________ _ Jefferson-Calhoun vein _________________ _ Kirk mine ____..._______ _ Old Town mine, by A. A. Drake, Jr ______ _ Springdale (Gold Rock) mine, by A. A. Drake, J r
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Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART
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rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides
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Sonora, Mexico Greg E. McKelvey, Phelps Dodge Mining Company Brenda B. Houser, Past-President, Arizona...explore the mining history and mineral deposits of one of the country's most important mining regions; further...cyanide and toxic metals released from the Summitville mine on downstream water supplies and crops. The distribution...distribution and movement of metals from mining districts of Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, and Rio Tinto, Spain...analysis to investigate the environmental impact of mining in the southeastern San Juan Mountains and adjacent
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McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
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recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and...• • • • • • • • • • • •• 34 Bald Mountain . . . . . . • . • • . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful
 
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