The Minnie Mine is a gold and silver mine located in Lander county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,801 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,801 Feet (1,768 Meters)
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Lat, Long: 40.52556, -117.11556
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Minnie Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Minnie Mine
Secondary: Tomboy-Minnie Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Arsenic
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Nevada
County: Lander
District: Battle Mountain 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
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Battle Mountain Gold Co.
Owner Name: Duval Corp. (Now Battle Mountain Gold Co.)
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Contact Metasomatic
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1942
Year Last Production: 1982
Discovery Year: 1942
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
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: Skarn Cu
Orebody
Form: IRREGULAR
Structure
Type: R
Description: Golconda Thrust
Type: L
Description: N-S Trending Faults; Nw-Trending Faults
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Prograde Skarn, Retrograde Skarn
Rocks
Name: Shale
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pennsylvanian
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: H. B. CHESSHER, THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY C. 1965, STATED THAT A SMALL ORE BLOCK HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED AVERAGING 0.15 OPT AU.
Materials
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Tremolite
Gangue: Actinolite
Gangue: Clay
Gangue: Marcasite
Gangue: Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Sphalerite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): REFER ALSO TO TOMBOY MINE (RECORD #231379).
Comment (Location): LOCATED ON W. SIDE BOX CANYON. NOTE THAT THE LOCATION FOR MINNIE MINE GIVEN IN PLATE 3 OF ROBERTS AND ARNOLD (1965) IS INCORRECT. MINNIE MINE ADJOINS TOMBOY MINE TO THE NE.
Comment (Development): 14 HOLES WERE DRILLED IN 1942 BY INTERNATIONAL SMELTING AND REFINING CO. MINED BY DUVAL CORP. (NOW BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD CO.) 1978-1982.
Comment (Workings): ADITS, TRENCHES, OPEN PIT.
Comment (Geology): METALS DISPLAY A ZONATION PATTERN AROUND THE DEPOSITS: ANOMALOUS AU, AG OUTLINE DEPOSITS WHERE THEY OCCUR AT OR NEAR SURFACE, SURROUNDED BY PERIPHERAL HALOES OF ANOMALOUS PB AND ZN, RESPECTIVELY. AU DEPOSITION OCCURRED PENECONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH REPLACEMENT OF EARLY DIOPSIDE ALTERATION ASSEMBLAGES BY ACTINOLITE AND CHLORITE.
Comment (Deposit): ORIGINAL WORKINGS CONSISTED OF 4 ADITS AND SEVERAL SMALL TRENCHES AND PITS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Production): LESS THAN $5,000 WORTH OF PRODUCTION UP TO THE TIME OF DUVAL'S ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY IN 1968. 1978-1982 CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION FIGURES REPRESENT COMBINED PRODUCTION FOR TOMBOY AND MINNIE DEPOSITS.
References
Reference (Deposit): BLAKE, D.W., KRETSCHMER, E.L., AND THEODORE, T.G., 1978, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE COPPER CANYON DEPOSITS, LANDER CO, NEV; IN GUIDEBOOK TO MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CENTRAL GREAT BASIN: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT 32, P.45-48.
Reference (Deposit): STEWART, J.H., MCKEE, E.H., STAGER, H.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL, BULL. 88.
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, 1939, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7043.
Reference (Deposit): JACKSON, D., 1982, HOW DUVAL TRANSFORMED ITS BATTLE MOUNTAIN PROPERTIES FROM COPPER TO GOLD, ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 183, NO. 10, P. 95-99.
Reference (Production): 1978-1982 CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION: THEODORE, T. G., HOWE, S. S., BLAKE, D. W., AND WOTRUBA, P. R., 1986, GEOCHEMICAL AND FLUID ZONATION IN THE SKARN ENVIRONMENT AT THE TOMBOY-MINNIE GOLD DEPOSITS, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, VOL. 25, P. 99-128.
Reference (Analytical Data): ROBERTS, R.J., AND ARNOLD, D.C., 1965, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES, NEVADA, USGS BULL. 459-B.
Reference (Deposit): BLAKE, D.W., AND KRETSCHMER, E.L., 1980, GOLD DEPOSITS AT COPPER CANYON, LANDER CO, NEV.; ABSTRACT; AIME PRECIOUS METALS SYMPOSIUM, RENO, NEV.
Reference (Deposit): THEODORE, T. G., HOWE, S. S., BLAKE, D. W., AND WOTRUBA, P. R., 1986, GEOCHEMICAL AND FLUID ZONATION IN THE SKARN ENVIRONMENT AT THE TOMBOY-MINNIE GOLD DEPOSITS, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, VOL. 25, P. 99-128.
Reference (Deposit): THEODORE, T. G., 1971, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COPPER CANYON AREA, BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, USGS OPEN FILE REPORT 71-282.
Reference (Deposit): THEODORE, T. G., HOWE, S. S., AND BLAKE, D. W., 1990, THE TOMBOY-MINNIE GOLD DEPOSITS AT COPPER CANYON, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, USGS BULL. 1857E, P. E43-E55.
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.
