The Fairview is a silver and gold mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,938 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 5,938 Feet (1,810 Meters)
Commodity: Silver, Gold
Lat, Long: 39.1792, -118.13310
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Fairview MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Fairview
Secondary: Bell Mountain Mine
Secondary: Bell Mountain Gold
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Fairview District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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: Unknown
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Nevada Silver, Inc.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1982
Owner Name: Southern Pacific Land Co. (See Comments)
Info Year: 1984
Years: 1984 -
Owner Name: N. A. Degerstrom, Inc.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1996
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Heap Leach-Merrill-Crowe
Year First Production: 1927
Discovery Year: 1900
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Cerargyrite
Unknown: Adularia
Unknown: Barite
Unknown: Calcite
Unknown: Corundum
Unknown: Electrum
Unknown: Fluorite
Unknown: Limonite
Unknown: Montmorillonite
Unknown: Quartz
Unknown: Rhodochrosite
Unknown: Silver
Unknown: Acanthite
Comments
Comment (Production): PAST PRODUCTION--35 MT OF ORE; 17 G/MT AU, 562 G/MT AG.
Comment (Geology): GENERAL SIZE OF ORE BODY IS SMALL. OTHER TYPES OF ALTERATION ARE CHLORITIZATION, SERITIZATION CLOSE TO WALL ROCK, AND OXIDATION. STRIKE AND DIP OF MINERALIZED ZONE BASED ON MAIN VEIN. SULFIDES AND SULFOSALTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY LEACHED FROM THE VEIN. ORIGINAL ORE MINERALS WERE ELECTRUM AND ARGENTITE. ZPHINZ ZONE WAS DISCOVERED AS A CROSS STRUCTURE OF MAIN VEIN IN ABOUT 1982. LARGE RESERVES OF LOW-GRADE ORE REPORTED AS EXTENSIONS OF MAIN VEIN. RECENT DISCOVERY OF ORE IN THE ZPHINZ ZONE COULD ALTER ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS.
Comment (Geology): YELLOW-GRAY CLORIDE MINERALS ARE ALSO PRESENT.
Comment (Ownership): IF OPTION AGREEMENT MET IN 1984 SPLC WILL OWN 66.6% OF THE PROPERTY AND WILL BECOME OPERATOR.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): COLUMN 2 GRADE BASED ON ASSAY OF FIRST CROSSCUT.
Comment (Deposit): THE GENERAL LOCATION IS ABOUT 60 KM SE OF FALLON. MINING METHOD IS OPEN PIT; 5 METER BENCHES. WATER IS PUMPED 12 KM FROM A WELL AT STINGAREE FLAT. THE ROAD IS 12 KM LONG FROM U.S. HIGHWAY 50. ANNUAL PROD. RATE ANTICIPATED-1.43 MT AU; 37.5 MT AG. PROCESS RATE--650 MT/D (1982 PRELIMINARY). PRODUCT TYPE--DORE BULLION (AG-AU 30:1). THE MILL IS BEING CONSTRUCTED ON SITE. MILLING METHOD--TANK CYANIDATION (CCD); ZINC PRECIPITATION, AND SMELTING. THE POWER IS DERIVED FROM CAT DIESELS. NAME ON THE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT, 1995, KNOWN DEPOSITS DATA BASE IS FAIRVIEW, #107, DEPOSIT HAS A LAT/LONG VERY CLOSE TO THE MILS LAT/LONG OF THIS MAS PROPERRTY FILE.
Comment (Geology): IN LITHOLOGY UNSPECIFIED INTRUSIVE IS CALCITE QUARTZ VEIN.
References
Reference (Reserve-Resource): DISTRICT, AND BELL MOUNTAIN MINE, FIELD TRIP 4, PRECIOUS
Reference (Reserve-Resource): GUIDE: CANDELARIA MINE, GOLDFIELD DISTRICT, TONOPAH
Reference (Reserve-Resource): GARSIDE, L. J. AND H. F. BONHAM, JR. ROAD LOG/TRIP
Reference (Reserve-Resource): AUGUST 1982, P. 46.
Reference (Deposit): GEOL. BULL. 83, 1974, PP. 78-79.
Reference (Deposit): DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA. NV BUREAU OF MINES AND
Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R., AND R. C. SPEED. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL
Reference (Deposit): WORLD MIN. (YEARBOOK), V. 36, NO. 8, 1983, PP. 60-61.
Reference (Deposit): CO, 1983, 142 PP.
Reference (Deposit): GRACE, K. A. EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN 1982.
Reference (Deposit): STATES: A MINE- SEARCH REPORT. MET. ECON. GROUP, BOULDER,
Reference (Deposit): CHENDER, M. (ED.). GOLD PROJECTS IN THE UNITED
Reference (Deposit): KNOWN DEPOSITS, #107, "FAIRVIEW".
Reference (Deposit): NATIONAL ASSESSMENT, 1995, CONTERMINOUS UNITED STATES
Reference (Reserve-Resource): MAR. 25-28, 1984, PP. FT4 1-27.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): SYMP. OF ASSOC. EXPL. GEOCHEM., RENO, NV,
Reference (Reserve-Resource): CORDILLERA, FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK, ED. BY J. L. JOHNSON.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): EXPLORATION FOR ORE DEPOSITS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN
Reference (Reserve-Resource): DISCOVERS NEW MINERALIZED ZONE. VOLUMNE 51, NUMBER 12,
Reference (Reserve-Resource): CALIFORNIA MINING JOURNAL. AMERICAN PYRAMID
Reference (Reserve-Resource): PYRAMID, INC., VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): STOCKHOLDERS. JAN. 1, 1982, 2 PP; AVAILABLE FROM AMERICAN
Reference (Reserve-Resource): BELL MOUNTAIN MINING CO. INTERIM REPORT-MESSAGE TO
Reference (Reserve-Resource): METAL DISTRICTS IN WEST-CENTRAL NEVADA. PAPER IN
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.
