The Betty East Project is a gold mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,530 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,530 Feet (2,295 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 38.4636, -117.13860
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Betty East Project MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Betty East Project
Secondary: Betty Claim Group
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Mercury
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Zinc
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Willow Spring
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Surface-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
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Deposit): BOUNDARY CONFUSION EXISTS BEACUSE THERE ARE 3 SEPARATE BETTY CLAIM PARCELS AND ADJACENT BETTY CLAIMS LOCATED BY HOMESTAKE. BETTY CLAIMS (166), LOCATED BY YOUNG AND LEE HIATT IN 1970. LEE HIATT QUIT CLAIMED TO YOUND IN 1972 AND YOUNG ACQUIRES BILL BHOLMOOS, REN, NV (BARIUM PRODUCTS) AS 49% PARTNER IN 1986 AND 70% PARTNER IN 1987. FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-NINE SAMPLES COLLECTED FOLLOWED BY SELECTED AREA DRILLING, EXPLORATION THROUGH VARIOUS MINING COMPANY LEASES. NINETY-SIX USBM SAMPLES COLLECTED FROM WORKINGS IN 1992. ANOMOLOUS SAMPLES CONCENTRATED IN AREAS NORTH OF BAXTER AND WILLOW SPRINGS. NEVADA GOLDFIEDS DRILLED 1991-1993 IN SEC. 15. POSSIBLE NI-BISMUTH-BASE METAL CONCENTRATED IN E 1/2 SEC. 7.
References
Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA
Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.
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.
