The Lovelock Mine is a nickel mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,669 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,669 Feet (1,423 Meters)
Commodity: Nickel
Lat, Long: 39.9964, -117.91310
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Lovelock Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Lovelock Mine
Secondary: Cottonwood Claims
Secondary: London and Liverpool Mines
Secondary: Mustang Nos. 1-4
Commodity
Primary: Nickel
Tertiary: Uranium
Tertiary: Cobalt
Location
State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Table Mountain
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
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Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
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
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Rocks
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Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Location): NOTE: NDMG BULL. 81 ERRONEOUSLY REPORTS THE LEGAL LOCATION OF THE COTTONWOOD CLAIMS AS SEC. 10, T. 22 N., R. 36 E. THE NICKEL MINE (0320010045) AND LOVELOCK MINE ARE IN T. 25 N., R. 36 E., IN SECS. 35 AND 34, RESPECTIVELY.
References
Reference (Deposit): NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 83, 1974, P. 84.
Reference (Deposit): NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 81, 1973, P. 18.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMM. PRELIM. RECONN. REPORT 3731.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMM. PRELIM. RECONN. REPORT 3308.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMM. PRELIM. RECONN. REPORT 3738.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IC 7093, 1940, P. 45-47.
Reference (Deposit): NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 32, 1939, 21 P.
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.
