The Carlin East/Main/West Leeville is a gold and silver mine located in Eureka county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,234 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 6,234 Feet (1,900 Meters)
Commodity: Gold, Silver
Lat, Long: 40.9139, -116.31610
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Carlin East/Main/West Leeville MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Carlin East/Main/West Leeville
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: Eureka
District: Carlin Trend
Land Status
Land ownership: Mixed
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
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Newmont Gold Co. (Newmont Mining Corp.)
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Colorado
Info Year: 1996
Production
Year: 1996
Description: Carlin East Ore Production 252197 Mt/Yr
Year: 1996
Description: Carlin Main Ore Production 111584 Mt/Yr
Year: 1996
Description: Total Gold Production 173800 T Oz/Yr
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Plant
Plant Type: Leach
Plant Subtype: Hydromet
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Milling Method: Autoclave-Carbon-In-Leach-Merrill-Crowe
Year First Production: 1965
Discovery Year: 1962
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
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
Not available
Comments
Comment (Reserve-Resource): IN THE NEWMONT MINING 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 48, 49 & NEWMONT GOLD 10-K REPORT; RESOURCES OF CARLIN EAST & MAIN COMBINED. IN NEWMONT MINING 1996 ANNUAL REPORT THESE RESOURCES ARE COMBINED WEST LEEVILLE.
Comment (Deposit): THIS PROPERTY FILE INCLUDES NEWMONTS THE CARLIN UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS OF CARLIN EAST/MAIN; WEST LEEVILLE PROPERTIES: WEST LEEVILLE - HIGH DESERT JV IS NOT INCLUDED: THE PROPERTIES WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE CARLIN/PETE/LANTERN FILE BECAUSE THEY ARE SEPARATE UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS. CARLIN EAST COMMENCED PRODUCTION IN LATE 1994 CARLIN MAIN IN EARLY 1995; WEST LEEVILLE IS STILL IN DEVELOPMENT.
References
Reference (Reserve-Resource): NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY, FORM 10-K, 1995, P14.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION, ANNUAL REPORT, 1995, PP. 40, 41.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): NEWMONT GOLD COMPANY, FORM 10-K, 1996, P16.
Reference (Reserve-Resource): NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION, ANNUAL REPORT, 1996, PP. 48, 49.
Reference (Deposit): THE NORTHERN MINER, JUNE 3, 1996, PP. B1, B4.
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.
