The Location 220 is a copper mine located in Elko county, Nevada.
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Location 220 MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Location 220
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Contact
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Columbia Plateau
Physiographic Section: Snake River Plain
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Oxidation
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Chlorite
Comments
Comment (Production): TOTAL PRODUCTION ABOUT 60,000 TO 20,000 TONS HALLTE.
Comment (Deposit): VEINS IN PURALLEL DIKES
Comment (Geology): SALT SPRINGS WATER WAS COLLECTED IN EVAPORATION VATS AND HALITE WAS PRECIPITATED AND SCRAPED UP. ONE ACRE OF VATS PRODUCED 10 TONS SALT PER DAY FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER.
Comment (Geology): SERIES OF PARALLEL, N 30-40 E DIKES SHEARED W/GREEN STAINED FELDSPAR VEINING, SOME CUOX STAINING DIKES 1-2 FT THICK UP TO 30 FT THICK. MAINLY QTZ AND FEIDSPAR WITH SOME CHLORITE.
Comment (Development): SEVERAL SALT-BEARING SPRINGS WERE DISCOVERED IN MARCH, 1870 ALONG THE EAST EDGE OF EAGLE MARSH, WITHIN SEVERAL MILES OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD. LEETE SOON ORGANIZED THE EAGLE SALT WORKS AND SALT WAS PRODUCED THERE FROM 1871 TO 1913. IT HAD THE LARGEST TOTAL PRODUCTION IN NEVADA AND WAS THE PRINCIPAL SUPPLIER OF SALT TO THE COMSTOCK MILLS AND LATER TO DAIRY AND DOMESTIC USERS. WHEN THE RAILROAD WAS RELOCATED SOME MILES TO THE EAST IN 1903, LEETE ORGANIZED THE EAGLE SALTWORKS RAILROAD CO., AND BUILT A 14.5-MILE STANDARD GAUGE RAILROAD ALONG THE OLD BED FROM FERNLEY TO THE SALT WORKS. IN 1871, AN EFFORT WAS MADE TO OBTAIN BORATE AT THE NORTH END OF THE MARSH.
Comment (Deposit): AREA OF ACTIVE SALT PRODUCTION OCCUPIED ABOUT 2 SQUARE MILES. PLAYA OCCUPIES AN AREA OF ABOUT 16 SQ MILES.
Comment (Workings): EVA PORATING VATS
References
Reference (Deposit): OBSERVATION
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.
