Buena Vista Mine

The Buena Vista Mine is a iron mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,400 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Buena Vista Mine

Commodity

Primary: Iron
Tertiary: Vanadium

Location

State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Mineral Basin 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: Columbia Iron Co., A Subsideiary Of U. S. Steel (1960'S)

Production

Year: 1953
Time Period: 1951-1953
Material type: ORE FE
Description: Cp_Grade: ^Over 57% Fe

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1951
Year Last Production: 1960
Discovery Year: 1898
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Skarn Fe

Orebody

Form: TABULAR TO LENTICULAR

Structure

Type: L
Description: Post-Mineral Faulting Off Sets Ore Body; Nw-Trending Fault

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Scapolitization, Chloritization

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: 0.31% V205
Analytical Data: ORE GRADE VARIES: 53.8, 60.6 AND 63.8% FE, 66.87% FE.

Materials

Ore: Magnetite
Ore: Hematite
Gangue: Sphene
Gangue: Apatite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Scapolite
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Development): PATENTED IN 1901F PURCHASED IN 1941 BY C.W. DUNTON AND A.S. VINNER OF ALHAMBRA, CA, ASSOC. WITH MINERAL MATERIALS CA. ORE WAS SHIPPED TO JAPAN IN 1951 UNTIL 1953. DEPOSIT WAS EXPLORED BY THE USBM IN 1945. THEY OUTLINED AN ORE BODY OF 350,000 TONS ORE AVERAGING 54% FE, 0.04% S, AND 0.49% P. RECENT MINING SHOWED ORE TO BE OF HIGHER GRADE. (SEE GEN. BELOW)

Comment (Location): ON SW FLANK OF THE BUENA VISTA HILLS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Comment (Deposit): PRINCIPAL ORE BODIES ARE REPLACEMENT OF DIORITE, WITH SOME REPLACEMENT OF METAVOLCANICS, TOO.

Comment (Workings): OPEN PITS, USING 20-FT BENCHES

Comment (Deposit): PRUDUCTION CONTINUED INTERMITTENTLY UNTIL 1960, WHEN THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD TO COLUMBIA IRON MINING CO., ASUBSIDIARY OF U.S. STEEL CORP. IT HAS BEEN IDLE SINCE THEN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Production): REEVES & RKAL, (1955) EP. 23

Reference (Deposit): REEVES, R.G., AND KRAL, V.E., 1955, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; PT. A: GEOLOGY AND IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL AND PERSHING COUNTIES,NV; NBMG, BULL S3, PT. A.

Reference (Deposit): NICKLE, NEIL L., 1968, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL CO., NV.; UNPUB. M.S. THESIS, UCLA.

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.