The Boundary Prospect is a copper mine located in Washoe county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Boundary Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Boundary Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Washoe
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
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Skarn Cu
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrrhotite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): IRON OXIDE STAINING AND SULFIDE MINERALS OCCUR BOTH DISSEMINATED AND MASSIVE IN GABBROIC AND DIORITIC INTRUSIVES EXPOSED IN A SMALL CREEK GULLY. THE MASSIVE SULFIDE OUTCROP IS EXPOSED IN THE EAST BANK OF THE CREEK AND CONSISTS OF A MIXTURE OF PYRITE AND PYRRHOTITE. DISSEMINATED CHALCOPYRITE WITH MALACHITE STAINING OCCURS LOCALLY IN ALTERED AND METAMORPHOSED GABBRO ON BOTH SIDES OF THE CREEK UPSTREAM FROM THE MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSIT. LIMESTONE AND METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS HAVE BEEN INTRUDED BY GRANITIC DIKES AND GRANODIORITE, WHICH IN TURN HAVE BEEN COVERED BY TERTIARY VOLCANIC ROCKS AND PARTIALLY EXPOSED BY EROSION.
Comment (Workings): ONE SHORT ADIT
Comment (Location): INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)
References
Reference (Deposit): TINGLEY, J.V., 1987, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON THE KUMIVA PEAK 1:100000 MAP AREA.
Reference (Deposit): SATKOSKI AND BERG, 1982, FIELD INVENTORY OF MINERAL RESOURCES, PYRAMID LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION, USBM.
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.
