 | | Report (issue) | | Geochemistry of the Copper Canyon Porphyry Copper Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL...Geochemistry of the Copper Canyon Porphyry Copper Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G....GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...stratigraphic features of the mining district Geology of the Copper Canyon area ................................................................. Scott Canyon Formation..................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | Chapter E Gold in Porphyry Copper Systems Gold in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold...the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine...Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County...County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and DAVID W. BLAKE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1857...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gold in porphyry copper systems. p. cm. (Geology and resources of gold |  | | Report (issue) | | Associated Skarns, Copper Canyon Porphyry Copper Deposits, Lander County, Nevada GE0 L0 GICAL SU RVEY...Associated Skarns, Copper Canyon Porphyry Copper Deposits, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and...GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...____ ____ __ ______ General geology of the Copper Canyon deposits ______________ Geology of the west...sampling-----------------------------Geographic variations of copper, gold, silver, and some other metals _________ |  | | Report (issue) | | of Plutonic Rocks in the Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...of Plutonic Rocks in the Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada ByTED G. THEODORE, MILES...GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...---------1 General geology of the Battle Mountain mining district -----------------------·----------...------------------------1 3 Geology of the Copper Canyon area -------------------------------Chemistry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COMMUNICATION AND FLUID ZONATION AT COPPER CANYON, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA* Introduction the west ore body...mnickel Formation. The hypogenemineralsinclude pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite,and marcasite,with thattheyrepresent...granodiorite,it is crucialat this posits,Lander County,Nevada,have provideda depositthat any geochenf... Duval Corporationproduces copperfrom its two Battle Mountainpropertiesat CopperCanyonand CopperBasin...tons of copper was producedfrom these two pits (World Mining, 1971). About 80 percentof the copper reservesknown |  | | 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...and precious-metal deposits in the Battle Mountain mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...__________ Cambrian System_______________________ Scott Canyon Formation_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ordovician System |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phoenix Mine, Nevada Curtis L. Johnson,1,†,* David A. Browning,2 and Neil E. Pendock3 1Newmont Mining Corporation...Corporation, 1655 Mountain City Highway, Elko, Nevada 89801 2Terracore, 3Dirt 5301 Longley Lane, Suite...Suite 157, Reno, Nevada 89511 Exploration, Cape Town Club, 18 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town, South Africa... Abstract The Phoenix mine and predecessor operations in north-central Nevada have produced an aggregate...aggregate of 5.2 Moz of gold and 550 million pounds of copper from an Eocene-aged Au-Cu porphyry-related skarn |  | | Report (issue) | | THE ELDER CREEK PORPHYRY COPPER SYSTEM, BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA by Natalya Gostyayeva...THE ELDER CREEK PORPHYRY COPPER SYSTEM, BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA by Natalya Gostyayeva,...allochthon near the northeast edge of the Battle Mountain Mining District. Synchronously with emplacement of...alteration affected rocks belonging to the porphyry copper system in an area approximately 5-km wide that...of biotite hornfels which contains hydrothermal pyrite±pyrrhotite. No commercial concentrations of base |  | | Report (volume) | | Geology of Deep Drill Holes at Iron Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and RALPH J. ROBERTS...---------------------------Geology of the Iron Canyon area__________________________________________...-----Distribution of arsenic, tin, barium, and copper at the surface______________ Geophysical logs of...distribution of gold, arsenic, tin, barium, and copper. Columnar sections showing lithology and geochemistry...showing the location of the Copper Canyon area of the Battle Mountain mining district________________________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | Cu-Mo Deposits: Yerington, Robinson, Hall, Bingham Canyon October, 1994 [ ,l I : f l [ l l, l. L. L ... Bootprints Along the Cordillera' Porphyry Copper Deposits from Alaska to Chile Dear Field Trip Participants:...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 |  | | Report (volume) | | BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL...of metallization 23 Silver-lead deposits 2 25 2 Copper deposits 26 Deposits of the early Tertiary ( ?)...of the ore deposits 2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility...filling 3 42 CONTENTS. Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued |  | | Report (volume) | | 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...gold in jasperoid, Elephant Head area, Lander County, Nevada I Ted G. Theodore and Gail M. Jones. p....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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Re-examination of rock geochemistry in the Copper Canyon area, Lander County, Nevada by Boris B. Kotlyar, Ted G. Theodore... RE-EXAMINATION OF ROCK GEOCHEMISTRY IN THE COPPER CANYON AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA by Boris B. Kotlyar, Ted G. Theodore...geochemistry from an approximately 16-km2 area at Copper Canyon, Nev., reveals a number of striking relations...many as 10 deposits in a skarn-related porphyry copper environment that includes the world-class Fortitude...2 million oz Au between 1984 and 1993. The Copper Canyon area is inferred to have included a geologic |  | Orris, G.J., Bennett, P.C., Theodore, T.G. (1987) A bibliography for the Winnemucca 1 degree by 2 degrees Quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district and selected major topics. Open-File Report Vol. 1987 (87-89) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr8789 | 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) | | 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) | | 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 |  | Theodore, T.G., Murchey, B.L., Hanger, R.A., Strong, E.E., Ashinhurst, R.T. (1994) To accompany the preliminary geologic map of the Snow Gulch Quadrangle, Humboldt and Lander counties, Nevada. Open-File Report Vol. 1994 (94-436) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr94436 | Report (issue) | | the Snow Gulch Quadrangle, Humboldt and Lander Counties, Nevada by Ted G. Theodore1 with a section on Radiolarians...the Ordovician Valmy Formation and Devonian Scott Canyon Formation by Benita L. Murchey1 and a section on...Pennsylvanian and Permian Antler Peak Limestone, Lander County, Nevada by Rex Alan Hanger2 , Ellen E. Strong3 ...94-436 Prepared in cooperation with Santa Fe Pacific Mining Inc. under Cooperative Research and Development...University Washington, DC 20052 ^Battle Mountain Gold Co. Battle Mountain, NY 89820 CORRELATION OF MAP |  | | Report (issue) | | HYDROTHERMALLY ALTERED ROCKS ALONG THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN-EUREKA, NEVADA MINERAL BELT USING LANDSAT IMAGES ............ 18 10 | i ! Copper Canyon. .................... 18 Copper Basin .......................COLOR-RATIO COMPOSITE IMAGE . . . . ..... 32 Battle Mountain. ................ ..... 33 Topographic Effects...areas of s- 5 hydrothermal alteration along the Battle Mount a in -Eureka e mineral belt .............of north-central s j | 9 Nevada including area of the Battle Mountain -Eureka mineral belt ...... |  | Roberts, Ralph J., Radtke, Arthur S., Coats, R. R., Silberman, Miles L., McKee, Edwin H. (1971) Gold-bearing deposits in north-central Nevada and southwestern Idaho; with a section on periods of plutonism in north-central Nevada. Economic Geology, 66 (1) 14-33 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.66.1.14 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | section on Periods of Plutonism in North-Central Nevada MILES L. SILBERMAN AND EDWIN H. MCKEE Abstract...one district, Battle Mountain (Copper Canyonand CopperBasin), where calc-hornfelscontaining pyrite, chalcopyrite...arsenopyrite,sphalerite, and galena was mined as copper-gold ore. Base-metal replacement deposits occurat...occurat Eur4ka (silver-gold-leadzinc) and Copper Canyon (copper-goldand zinc-lead-silver). Peripheral gold-silver...gold-silver depositsoccur at Eureka and Copper Canyon. Disseminatedgold depositssuchas Carlin, Cortez, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 385-399 Ore Fluids in the Porphyry Copper Deposit at Copper Canyon,Nevada J. Ti•oMAsNAsa ANt) Abstract The...low-gradecopperand gold depositat CopperCanyon,Lander County, Xevada, formedin the contactmetasomatic environmentadjacentto...shallowTertiary intrusion. Vein and disseminatedchalcopyrite-pyrite-pyrrhotite-arsenopyrite mineralization, with lesser...geochemical(Theodore, 1969) examinationof the district. Attempts have been made to documentthe range...appreciablylessdense. Apparently,metal zonation in the district is related to the fluid zonation. The CopperCanyonopen-pitmine |  | | Report (issue) | | Preliminary Geologic Map of the Galena Canyon Quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada by JeffL.Doebrich1 Open-File... 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...Copper Canyon, Iron Canyon, an Copper Basin areas Flood plain deposits (Quaternary) Includes sand, silt |  | | Thesis/Dissertation | | Distribution of the Buffalo Valley Gold Deposit, Battle Mountain, Nevada by Kathryn Sechrist A Prepublication Manuscript...is one of many midTertiary gold-(copper) deposits in northern Nevada that contains porphyry dikes fringed...Not far from the deposit there are a number of copper-poor Carlin-type deposits without skarn. The Buffalo...west-central edge of Battle Mountain. The Buffalo Valley, Phoenix (Copper Canyon, Fortitude), and Converse...porphyry-related skarn deposits in the greater Battle Mountain area that are related to intrusions. Buffalo |  | | Report (issue) | | Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PA...MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT AND SURROUNDING AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA FRONTISPIECE. Buckingham area. Group...Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, DAVID W. BlAKE, THOMAS... JOHNSON and a section on SUPERGENE COPPER DEPOSITS AT COPPER BASIN By DAVID W. BLAKE and a section...GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE PORPHYRY COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA U.S. GEOLOGICAL |  | Peters, S.G., Nash, J.T., John, D.A., Spanski, G.T., King, H.D., Connors, K.A., Moring, B.C., Doebrich, J.L., McGuire, D.J., Albino, G.V., Dunn, V.C., Theodore, T.G., Ludington, S.D. (1996) Metallic mineral resources in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California. Open-File Report Vol. 1996 (96-712) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr96712 | 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........................................ Porphyry copper (molybdenum) deposits (models 17, 21a of Cox and......................................16 Porphyry copper-gold deposits (model 20c of Cox and Singer, 1986) |  | | Report (volume) | | sections of Au-skarn deposits in north-central Nevada 8 Map showing distribution of Au-skarn districts...zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...five Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of pyroxene...three Au-bearing skarn systems in north-central Nevada 17 Photomicrograph showing massive garnet partly...skarns 22 Graphs showing gold grade compared with copper grade and silver grade 23 Contents Ill TABLES |
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