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Gold from
Buffalo Valley mine, Buffalo Valley Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Buffalo Valley mine, Buffalo Valley Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:271742
Long-form Identifier:1:3:271742:5
GUID (UUID V4):aba0bc8c-f497-4a7f-b363-65c3137e277d
Localities for Gold in this Region
Buffalo Valley Gold Mine, Buffalo Valley mine, Buffalo Valley Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.2km (0.1 miles) Buffalo Valley Gold Mine, Buffalo Valley mine, Buffalo Valley Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Trenton Canyon, Buffalo Valley Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
10.9km (6.7 miles) White Shilo mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
11.0km (6.8 miles) Redline Gold Skarn Deposits, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Lucky Strike mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
11.5km (7.1 miles) Reona Pit, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles) Dead Horse prospect, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Nevada group, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Trinity mine (Atlas mine), Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Copper Canyon mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Thesis/Dissertation
Metal Distribution of the Buffalo Valley Gold Deposit, Battle Mountain, Nevada by Kathryn Sechrist A Prepublication...6 Geology of the Buffalo Valley Deposit 7 Sedimentary Rocks of the Buffalo Valley Deposit 7 Igneous...Igneous Rocks of the Buffalo Valley Deposit 7 Structure at the Buffalo Valley Deposit 8 Alteration and...and Metal Distribution at Buffalo Valley 9 Distribution of Metals 11 Gold Occurrences 12 Discussion...presents new data on the Buffalo Valley deposit, which is one of many midTertiary gold-(copper) deposits in
Report (issue)
the Antler Peak 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada by Jeff L. Doebrich1 Open-File Report 92-398...92-398 Prepared in cooperation with the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology This report is preliminary...University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557 1992 DESCRIPTION OF MAP UNITS Qd Mine dump material (Holocene...(Holocene, man-made) Present around Fortitude Mine open pit Qp Placer workings (Holocene, man-made)...iron-oxide after magnetite(?). Exposed only in Buffalo Valley Mine area (sees. 28, 33, and 34, T. 32 N, R. 42
Report (issue)
MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA... MS 176, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, NV 89557-0047 CONTENTS Introduction........................................ Northern Nevada Rift ............................................assessment of BLMadministered lands in northwest Nevada and northeast California. The project area is composed...(RAs), totalling 13.5 million acres, in northwest Nevada and northeast California (figs. 1, 2). The SonomaGerlach
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magmatic-Hydrothermal Gold Mineralization at the Lone Tree Mine, Battle Mountain District, Nevada Elizabeth A....Michael J. Pribil3 1Department 2Department of Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1600 Illinois...Battle Mountain mining district, Nevada. Prior to mine closure in 2006, Santa Fe Pacific Gold and Newmont...Newmont produced 4.2 Moz of gold at an average grade of 2.06 g/t at Lone Tree, primarily from the N-S– to NNW-SSE–striking...abrasion-thermal ionization mass spectrometry. The gold is associated with sericitic and argillic alteration
Report (issue)
deposits of the East Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...Geology and mineral deposits of Esmeralda County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 78...80 p. Allsman, P.T., 1940, Reconnaissance of gold mining districts in the Black Hills, South Dakota: U...Nutt Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-024), Mohave County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment...Plumas County, California; Venture 63: San Francisco, Calif., American Exploration and Mining Co., unpaginated
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
Report (issue)
PORPHYRY COPPER SYSTEM, BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA by Natalya Gostyayeva, Ted G. Theodore...PORPHYRY COPPER SYSTEM, BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA by Natalya Gostyayeva, Ted G. Theodore...the northeast edge of the Battle Mountain Mining District. Synchronously with emplacement of the porphyritic...present in the general area of the Morning Star Mine a small polymetallic vein occurrence in the northeast...where recorded production has uncommonly low silver/gold ratios. In addition, from west to east in the quartz
Report (issue)
the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 459-B...the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada By RALPH J. ROBERTS and D. C. ARNOLD GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL Summary of base- SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...depostls ________________________________ _ Copper-gold deposits _______ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Report (issue)
SELECTED GEOTHERMAL AREAS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA By F.H. Olmsted, P.A. Glancy, J.R. Harrill, F...14 Ruby Valley 16 Crescent Valley-Whirlwind Valley area 18 Washoe area 21 Pueblo Valley-Continental...region 25 Mason Valley 27 Grass Valley 29 Dixie-Fairview Valley area 32 Buffalo Valley and lower Reese...Reese River Valley 35 Northern Big Smoky ,,alley 38 Smith Creek Valley 141 Rawhide Flats 43 Railroad...Railroad Valley-Hot Creek Valley area 45 Winnemucca segmn4- 48 Monitor Valley 51 Buena Vista Valley
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)
2° quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major...resources of the Winnemucca 1° x 2° quadrangle area, Nevada, were collected in support of a series of U.S....Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada: Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, and Pershing Counties. Table 2...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...for the five Nevada Counties that occur in the Winnemucca 1° by 2° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES
Report (issue)
STATE OF NEVADA Open-file Report 79-235 1979 Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey for the Nevada Operations...SURVEY INVENTORY OF GRANITIC MASSES IN THE STATE OF NEVADA Compiled by Richard W. Spengler, Florian Maldonado...-----------------------------------------Clark County-----------------------------------------------...---------------------------------------Lincoln County-----------------------------------------------...----------------------------------Southern Nye County-----------------------------------------------
Report (issue)
ALTERED ROCKS ALONG THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN-EUREKA, NEVADA MINERAL BELT USING LANDSAT IMAGES by M. Dennis... 18 Copper Basin ..................... 18 ' Gold Acres ...................... 19 i DESCRIPTION...infrared composite of north-central s j | 9 Nevada including area of the Battle Mountain -Eureka mineral...U-2 color aerial photograph of the Copper Basin mine and surrounding area .......... 3 38 Figure 11...specimen of welded Cataeno tuff located south of Gold Acres. ..... | . i 53 ~* * Figure 18 - Laboratory
Report (volume)
Gold-Bearing Skarns U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1930 AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS OF THE U.S...Vlrginia--503 National Center, Rm. 1C402, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. • SALT LAKE CITY, Utah--Federal Bldg., Rm....FAIRBANKS, Alaska--New Federal Bldg., 101 Twelfth Ave. Gold-Bearing Skarns By TED G. THEODORE, GRETA J. ORRIS...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gold-bearing skarns I by Ted G. Theodore ... [et al.}...references. Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.3: 1930 1. Skarn. 2. Gold ores. I. Theodore, Ted. G. II. Series. QE75.89 no
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DESCRIPTION AND GRADES AND TONNAGES OF GOLD-BEARING SKARNS by Greta J. Orris 1 , James D....1987 INTRODUCTION A significant proportion of mining industry's interest in the last few years has been...deposits such as Battle Mountain Gold Company's Fortitude deposit, Nevada and Experanza Exploration's Red...other deposits have been generally referred to as gold skarns in the literature and occasionally further...tonnage distributions are shown in figures 1 and 2. Gold-bearing skarns can, as a first approximation, be
Report (issue)
Geologic Map of the Galena Canyon Quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada by JeffL.Doebrich1 Open-File Report 94-664... Prepared in cooperation with Santa Fe Pacific Mining Inc. under Cooperative Research and Development...MS-176, Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, 89557-0047 DESCRIPTION OF MAP UNITS Qd...Qof Tb Tc Tgp Mine dump (Holocene) Present around active and abandoned mining operations in the Copper...with a silty to sandy matrix. Includes terrace and valley-fill deposits at higher elevations; dissected by
Report (issue)
resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada by George Wong Open-File Report 83-721 This...Appendix A **~""~~"* "* *** *"* * » Table Table 1. District descriptions . .-.-.-. . -.-. . . . .-. .-. <...resource areas in the Basin and Range Province of Nevada By George Wong The purpose of this map is to identify...Province. These areas include past and present mining and prospecting localities as well as areas of...map are not legal mining district boundaries and may include more than one district as well as adjacent
Report (issue)
wu OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY— Joseph V: Tingley a RobertC.Horton _ Francis C. Lincoln 3 . ...Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was made — possible with the assistance...eh aa nearly 48 million acres of public land in Nevada. Most of the minerals, _ _ geothermal energy, and...ahij 4 = Wh A a ‘ a a y 4 Pte Es in Nevada comes from publicland. First edition, first printing...Leshendok, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Eric Moody, Nevada Historical Society é Jon Price, National Research
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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...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
Report (issue)
the Antler Peak Quadrangle Humboldt and Lander Counties Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Humboldt and Lander Counties Nevada By RALPH J. ROBERTS, GEOLOGY OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL...regional relations of geologic units in a complex mining district \ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...the Antler Peak quadrangle, Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964... in pocket. Bibliography: p. 87-90. 1. Geology-Nevada-Antler Peak quadrangle. I. Title. II. Title: Antler
Report (volume)
Geochemistry and Geology of Gold in Jasperoid, Elephant Head Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Geochemistry and Geology of Gold in Jasperoid, Elephant Head Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and...Geochemistry and geology of gold in jasperoid, Elephant Head area, Lander County, Nevada I Ted G. Theodore and...I 19.3:2009 1. Gold ores-Geology-Nevada-Lander County. 2. JasperoidNevada-Lander County. 3. Geochemistry-Nevada-Lander...Geochemistry-Nevada-Lander County. I. Jones, Gail M. II. Title. Ill. Series. QE75.B9 no. 2009 [TN423.N3] 557.3
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DATABASE OF SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES......5 TABLE 2. COMPARISON OF TOTAL PRODUCTION OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC FOR ALL DEPOSITS.......7 TABLE 3. COMPARISON OF TOTAL RESOURCES OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC REMAINING IN DEPOSITS...HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS OF GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, LEAD, AND ZINC IN THE UNITED STATES...............8 TABLE 5. THE TEN LARGEST DOMESTIC GOLD DEPOSITS IN TERMS OF PAST PRODUCTION, REMAINING
Book
f. MIMING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN i r r i i ; %■... ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by FRANCIS CHURCH LINCOLN...LINCOLN 0 ll ; RENO NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1923 PREFACE Earlier Works. The object of...infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive work of...peared for a number of years. In the early days of Nevada min­ ing, from 1866 to 1878, the field was covered
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...89445 6USGS, National Center, MS 927, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston, VA 22092-0001 7Bureau of Land Management...Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13.5 million acres in northwest Nevada and...Rock National Conservation Area), and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources
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MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA...related to mining districts .................... Geochemical anomalies not aparently related to mining districts..... Figure 5. Histogram showing concentration of gold in 5,776 stream-sediment and soil samples, Winnemucca-Surprise...Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Assessment Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California ....... in pocket Plate...Winnemucca-Surprise Resource Assessment Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California ....... in pocket Plate
 
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