The Chapman - Anderson Group is a copper mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Chapman - Anderson Group MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Chapman - Anderson Group
Secondary: NBMG # 3551 # 3552
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Iron
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Santa Fe
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Agnes Bennett
Years: 1935 -
Production
Year: 1917
Time Period: 1913 - 1917
Material type: CU
Description: Cp_Grade: ^2 - 6 % Cu
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Contact Metasomatic
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: DISSEMINATED, IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: L
Description: Volcano Peak Normal Fault Strikes N 40 W And Dips Sw - Mineralized; Champion Normal Fault Strikes E-W And Dips South - No Valuable Ore Has Been Found In Footwall Of This Fault
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The Orebodies Are Largely Copper Carbonates And Oxides. They Appear As Pods Or Irreg. Masses In The Shear Zone.Silicification Also.
Rocks
Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Hematite
Comments
Comment (Location): ESTIMATE LOCATION
Comment (Commodity): EARLY OPERATIONS REMOVED 4 TO 9 PERCENT CU LEAVING LOW GRADE SHELLS STANDING. LATER WORK MINED 2.5 PERCENT CU WITH HIGH GRADE. UNSPECIFIED TONNAGE AT 2.5 PERCENT GRADE REPRESENTS POSSIBLE PRESENT POTENTIAL.
Comment (Production): FIGURES DERIVED FROM ANDERSON MINE AND NEV. CHAMPION COPPER CO. - LISTED SEPARATELY
Comment (Development): PRODUCTION DURING WORLD WAR I, DRILLING HAS OCCURRED TO THE EAST WITHIN THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS. ; ECON.COM: 3000 TONS OF 5% COPPER (1915-1916)
Comment (Workings): LEVELS AT 100 , 200 , 300 FT. IN THE DEEP SHAFT AND SEVERAL THOUSAND FT. OF WORKINGS OPEN CUTS AND GLORY HOLES AT THE SURFACE. THREE 60*20 FOOT MODERN SHEDS FILLED TO THE CEILING WITH CORE. THERE HAS BEEN TEN MINOR WORKINGS THAT HAS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE ORE.
Comment (Geology): ORE IN IRREGULAR CHIMNEYS AND MASSES OF GARNETIZED ROCK. ORE COMPLETELY OXIDIZED AND POROUS, SOFT AND FRIABLE
Comment (Deposit): SANTA FE DISTRICT ACCREDITED WITH PRODUCTION OF 8,849,597 LBS. CU BETWEEN 1912 AND 1919 . CHAMPION - ANDERSON GROUP OF CLAIMS COMPRISE A NET AREA OF APPROX. 115 ACRES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): CLARK, CLIFTON, W., 1922 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA FE DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV., UNIV OF CAL. PRESS, VOL. 14 , NO. 1
Reference (Deposit): COUCH, CARPENTER, 1943 , NEVADA'S METAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTION ( 1859 - 1940 ), UNIV. OF NEV. BULL., VOL. 27 , NO. 4
Reference (Deposit): TELLURIDE CLAIMS, SANTE FE MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-9-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED DISTRICT MINING FILES (TINGLEY FILES).
Reference (Production): COUCH AND CARPENTER F ( 2 )
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.
