The Bad Apple Claims is a copper mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,402 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,402 Feet (2,256 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 40.94472, -116.04833
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Bad Apple Claims MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Bad Apple Claims
Secondary: NBMG Sample Sites 1576 A & B
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Swales Mountain District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Jon Scott
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
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Roberts Mountain Thrust
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicification, Kaolinization, Cu, Fe And Mn Oxidation
Rocks
Name: Mafic Intrusive Rock
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Name: Mafic Intrusive Rock
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Name: Mafic Intrusive Rock
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Kaolinite
Comments
Comment (Geology): ADIT VISITED IS IN CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN SILICEOUS, SILTY MUDSTONES OF THE ORDOVICIAN VININI FM. AND ALTERED TERTIARY QUARTZ PORPHYRY. THE SEDIMENTS OUTCROP ON THE SE SIDE OF THE PORTAL. THE VEDS STRIKE APPROXIMATELY N20E, 55SE AND ARE FRACTURED AND FE-STAINED. A WEATHERED PATCH OF INTRUSIVE ROCK IS EXPOSED NEXT TO THE SEDIMENTS. THE INTRUSIVE IS BEIGE IN COLOR, HAS A VERY FINELY CRYSTALLINE GROUNDMASS AND CONTAINS FINE BIOTITE CRYSTALS AND LARGE QUARTZ AND K-SPARY PHENOCRYSTS. THE PORPHYRY ON THE DUMP AND IN OUTCROP IS ALTERED. THE ALTERATION RANGES FROM KAOLINITIC TO SILICIC. SOME PIECES OF PORPHYRY FORM THE DUMPA RE BLEACHED AND SHOW RANDOM VEINLETS OF PUNKY FE AND MN OXS. SAMPLE 157A CONSISTS OF THE ALTERED SEDIMENTS WHICH CONTAIN CLOTS AND FINE VEINLETS OF CU AND FEOXS. SAMPLE B IS OF THE ALTERED INTRUSIVE FROM OUTCROP. BELOW THE WORKINGS ARE SEVERAL BOLD OUTCROPS OF FE-STAINED QUARTZ PORPHYRY. THERE ARE PROBABLY SEVERAL DIKES WHICH EXTEND FROM MAIN BODY INTO THE ADJACENT
Comment (Geology): SEDIMENTS NOT SHOWN ON GEOLOGIC MAP OF THIS AREA.
Comment (Development): THREE ADITS, ONLY ONE OF WHICH WAS SAMPLED. SAMPLED ADIT IS CAVED AND TRENDS TO THE SW.
Comment (Deposit): SAMPLE #1576A; DARK GREY SILICEOUS MUDSTONE/CHERT. SURFACES COATED BY CUOXS AND FEOXS. SOME SMALL VEINLETS OF MALACHITE. ROCK IS SLIGHTLY GOSSANY. SAMPLE #1576B; YELLOWISH, HIGHLY ALTERED GRANITIC TO QUARTZ MONZONITIC INTRUSIVE (DIKE?) WITH CIARSE QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR PHENOCRYSTS. FELDSPARS ARE COMPLETELY KAOLINIZED AND GROUND MASS IS HIGHLY FE STAINED.
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.
