The Golden Butte Mine is a gold mine located in White Pine county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,218 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,218 Feet (2,200 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 39.8811, -115.06250
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Golden Butte Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Golden Butte Mine
Secondary: Alta Bay Ventures
Secondary: Golden Butte Ventures
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Egan Mountain
Land Status
Land ownership: Unknown
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: Echo Bay Mines Ltd.
Info Year: 1996
Owner Name: Alta Gold Co.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1996
Years: 1991 -
Production
Year: 1993
Description: Gold 163 Oz/Yr
Year: 1992
Description: Gold 1073 Oz/Yr
Year: 1991
Description: Gold (Orebody Depleted) 4462 Oz/Yr
Year: 1990
Description: Gold 13568 Oz/Yr
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Plant
Plant Type: Leach
Plant Subtype: Precipitation
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Leach-Precipitation
Year First Production: 1989
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
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
Not available
References
Reference (Ownership): RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY, 1994/95, U.S. MINES AND MINING
Reference (Deposit): 1990, P15.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA STATE MINE INSPECTOR'S OFFICE, INTERVIEW, 1990.
Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, SPECIAL PUBLICATION 10,
Reference (Deposit): 36-39, "A RECORD YEAR FOR NEVADA GOLD", CARTER, R.A..
Reference (Ownership): COMPANIES, P.325.
Reference (Deposit): ENGINEERING & MINING JOURNAL, V 191, NO 6, JUNE, 1990, PP.
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.
