The Liberty Pit is a copper mine located in White Pine county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,001 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,001 Feet (2,134 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 39.25778, -114.99778
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Liberty Pit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Liberty Pit
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Molybdenum
Tertiary: Gold
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Platinum
Tertiary: Palladium
Tertiary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Robinson District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface
Ownership
Owner Name: Kennecott Copper Corp.
Years: 1969 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1907
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: L
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Porphyry Cu, skarn-related
Orebody
Form: DISSEMINATED
Structure
Type: R
Description: Sedimentary Strata Have Been Tilted, Folded, And Complexly Faulted
Type: L
Description: Many Faults
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian
Name: Rhyolite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Molybdenite
Ore: Fluorite
Ore: Cuprite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Copper
Ore: Chrysocolla
Gangue: Garnet
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Epidote
Gangue: Apatite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Magnetite
Gangue: Biotite
Gangue: Diopside
Gangue: Actinolite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): SEE ALSO: MRDS M046657.
Comment (Location): LOCATION GIVEN IS WITHIN LIBERTY PIT
Comment (Production): ONE VERY RICH POCKET FOUND IN 1966. SMALL BYPRODUCT PGE PRODUCTION FROM SMELTER RETURNS
Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT IS OXIDIZED 100-400 FT
Comment (Workings): 1,000 FT DEEP
Comment (Geology): DEPOSIT IN EAST-TRENDING ZONE 6 MI LONG, UP TO 3,000 FT WIDE. ORE CONFINED TO ALTERED PORPHYRY AND ADJACENT SEDIMENTARY ROCKS: IN DISSEMINATED GRAINS IN THE PORPHYRY, IN BLEBS IN QUARTZ VEINLETS, IN GRAINS ALONG MINUTE FRACTURES, AND IN VEINLETS OF PURE SULFIDES
References
Reference (Deposit): SMITH, R.M., 1976, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF WHITE PINE COUNTY, NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 85, PART II, P. 64-75
Reference (Production): SMITH, 1976
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
