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Daisy Gold Mine

The Daisy Gold Mine is a gold mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,562 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Daisy Gold Mine

State:  Nevada

County:  Nye

Elevation: 6,562 Feet (2,000 Meters)

Commodity: Gold

Lat, Long: 36.9094, -116.68000

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Daisy Gold Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Daisy Gold Mine
Secondary: Mother Lode
Secondary: West Zone
Secondary: Mother Lode Claims
Secondary: Daisy Project
Secondary: Daisy Gold Project
Secondary: Secret Pass
Secondary: Mother Lode Mine
Secondary: Telluride Mine
Secondary: Sunday Night
Secondary: Joshua Zone
Secondary: South Zone
Secondary: West Deep
Secondary: Sna

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Silver

Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Beatty Mt

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

Type: Located Claim

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: N. A. Degerstrom
Company ID: 2602110
Home Office: Washington
Info Year: 1989
Years: 1989 -

Owner Name: Gexa Gold Corp.
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1988

Owner Name: Rayrock Yellowknife Resources Inc.
Percent: 35.00
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1996

Owner Name: Inter-Rock Gold Inc.
Percent: 65.00
Home Office: Canada
Info Year: 1996

Production

Year: 1996
Description: Ore Processed @ 0.022 Oz/St (12/96 Only) 163000 St Ore
 Year: 1996
Description: Gold P[Roduced (December 96 Only) 425 Tr Oz/Yr

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Plant
Plant Type: Beneficiation (Mill)
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Heap Leach-Merrill-Crowe
Year First Production: 1996
Discovery Year: 1978
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin

Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Deposit): THIS PROPERTY FILE IS A COMBINATION OF DAISY - SECRET PASS (0320230561 FORMERLY) AND MOTHER LODE MINE (THIS SEQ#) THIS AREA WAS MINED FROM 1990 TO 1991 UNDER THE NAME OF MOTHER LODE PROPERTY, AFTER THE MOTHER LODE DEPOSIT. THAT OPERATION CEASED IN 1991. GEXA GOLD CORPORATION, N.A. DEGERSTROM AND SISKON GOLD CORPORATION OWNED & OPERATED IT. THEIR ARE OTHER DEPOSITS IN THE AREA; SECRET PASS, WEST ZONE AND SUNDAY NIGHT, ALL OF THEM ARE ON THE DAISY PROPERTY. OXIDE ORE MATERIAL FROM THE MOTHER LODE PIT IS DEPLETED. BLM PATENTED CLAIM INFORMATION SHOWS THAT THE DAISY WAS WITHIN A BLOCK OF SURVEYED CLAIMS ADJACENT TO AND WEST OF THE PATENTED FAIRVIEW CLAIM, ALSO THE FAIRVIEW MINE.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): THIS PROPERTY FILE IS A COMBINATION OF DAISY - SECRET PASS (0320230561 FORMERLY) AND MOTHER LODE MINE (THIS SEQ#) THIS AREA WAS MINED FROM 1990 TO 1991 UNDER THE NAME OF MOTHER LODE PROPERTY, AFTER THE MOTHER LODE DEPOSIT. THAT OPERATION CEASED IN 1991. GEXA GOLD CORPORATION, N.A. DEGERSTROM AND SISKON GOLD CORPORATION OWNED & OPERATED IT. THEIR ARE OTHER DEPOSITS IN THE AREA; SECRET PASS, WEST ZONE AND SUNDAY NIGHT, ALL OF THEM ARE ON THE DAISY PROPERTY. OXIDE ORE MATERIAL FROM THE MOTHER LODE PIT IS DEPLETED. BLM PATENTED CLAIM INFORMATION SHOWS THAT THE DAISY WAS WITHIN A BLOCK OF SURVEYED CLAIMS ADJACENT TO AND WEST OF THE PATENTED FAIRVIEW CLAIM, ALSO THE FAIRVIEW MINE. PROVEN + PROBABLE ORE RESERVES, 12/31/96: OXD ORE 11.5 M-ST @ 0.018 OZ/T: SULF ORE 0.4 M-ST @ 0.26 OZ/T: MINE START UP EXPECTED LATE 1996: 1.8M MT ORE/YR WITH 30,000 OZ AU/YR EST. EST ORE PRODUCTION AT START-UP 145,000 ST/MTH, (1997).

Comment (Economic Factors): BIO-OXDATION MAY BE USED ON THE SULFIDE ORE.

References

Reference (Deposit): NORTHERN MINER, 5-19-97, P.1.

Reference (Deposit): NEWS RELEASE, INTER-ROCK GOLD INC., 11/25/96.

Reference (Deposit): THE NORTHERN MINER, JUNE 3, 1996, P B13.

Reference (Deposit): MINING JOURNAL, JANUARY 3, 1997, VOL 328, #8410, P5.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING JOURNAL, 9/20/96, P222.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD, VOL 107, #52, DEC., 25, 1996, P1.

Reference (Deposit): THE NORTHERN MINER, OCT., 7, 1996, P16.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD, VOL 107, #39, SEPT. 25, 1996, P1.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD, VOL 107, #??, SEPT. 4, 1996, P27.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD. VOL., 107, #??, AUG 31, 1996, P3.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD, VOL 107, #34, AUG. 21, 1996, P3.

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA. OCT 2, 1996. 2 PAGES.

Reference (Deposit): MAY INDICATE NEW MINERALIZED ZONE AT DAISY PROPERTY IN

Reference (Deposit): ISDN WIRE SERVICE RELEASE. INTER-ROCK GOLD DRILLING RESULTS

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD, VOL 106, #4., JAN. 25, 1995, P1.

Reference (Deposit): OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1992, P. 67.

Reference (Deposit): NV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1992, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

Reference (Deposit): OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1990, P. 74.

Reference (Deposit): NV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1991, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

Reference (Deposit): OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1989, P. 66.

Reference (Deposit): NV. DIV. MINE INSPECTION, 1990, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE

Reference (Reserve-Resource): INTER-ROCK GOLD INC., 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, P7.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): RAYROCK YELLOWKNIFE RESOURCES, INC. 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, P8.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): RAYROCK YELLOWKNIFE RESOURCES, INC. 1995 ANNUAL REPORT, P10.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): AMERICAN MINES HANDBOOK, 1996, PP. 140, 200-201.

Nevada Gold

Gold Districts of Nevada

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.