The Blue Bell Mine is a copper mine located in Humboldt county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,151 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,151 Feet (1,570 Meters)
Commodity: Copper
Lat, Long: 41.12028, -117.27056
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Blue Bell Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Blue Bell Mine
Secondary: Markus Durfee's Claims;
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Tungsten
Location
State: Nevada
County: Humboldt
District: Potosi District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Vein
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1946
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
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Ordovician
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Scheelite
Comments
Comment (Production): U. SMALL AMT. CU. PRODUCED
Comment (Development): SMALL AMOUNTS OF COPPER ORE HAVE BEEN MINED AND SHIPPED FROM THE PROPERTY, BUT NO TUNGSTEN PRODUCTION IS RECORDED.
Comment (Workings): VERTICAL SHAFT.
Comment (Deposit): SCHEELITE OCCURS AS SCATTERED CRYSTALS, GENERALLY WITH QUARTZ, THROUGHOUT A WIDE ZONE OF BROKEN AND CONTORTED LIME-STONE OF THE COMUS FM. THE PROSPECT IS ABOUT 1 MILE FROM THE S-TOCK, AND IS THE ONLY KNOWN OCCURRENCE OF SCHEELITE IN THE DIS-TRICT OUTSIDE OF THE NARROW CONTACT ZONE AROUND THE GRANODIORI-TE. THE COPPER ORE OCCURS IN NARROW QUARTZ VEINS ON THE PROPER-TY. THE COPPER ORE AND SCHEELITE DO NOT OCCUR TOGETHER, AND TH-E AVERAGE TUNGSTEN CONTENT IS LESS THAN 0.1 % WO3. THERE ARE N-O KNOWN LOCAL CONCENTRATIONS OF SCHEELITE RICH ENOUGH TO PERMI-T SELECTIVE MINING.
Comment (Location): IN FELIX CANYON
References
Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEV; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59
Reference (Deposit): HOTZ, P.E., AND WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE OSGOOD MOUNTAINS QUADRANGLE HUMBOLDT CO., NEV; U.S.G.S. PROF PAPER 431.
Reference (Deposit): HOBBS, S.W. AND CLABOUGH, S.E., 1946, TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS OF THE OSGOOD RANGE, HUMBOLDT CO., NEV; U. NEV BULL. 40, NO 5; MIN. GEOL SER NO 44
Reference (Deposit): STAGER, H.K., IN PREP., NBMG BULL ON W IN NEVADA
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.
