Bellview Deposit

The Bellview Deposit is a silver and gold mine located in White Pine county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,218 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Bellview Deposit
Secondary: 7-11 Mine

Commodity

Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Lead

Location

State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Chase District

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.
Administrative Organization: Ely Administrative District

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Homestake Mining Co.
Info Year: 1996

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Pluton-related
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Discovery Year: 1988
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Polymetallic veins

Orebody

Form: veinlets

Structure

Type: L
Description: North- striking fractures dip steeply east or west

Type: R
Description: Gold mineralization occurs near an anticlinal axis.

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Host rocks have been altered to jasperoid.

Rocks

Name: Granite
Role: Associated
Description: stock
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age in Years: 159.000000+-
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Middle Cambrian

Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Middle Cambrian

Name: Carbonate
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Tertiary

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Economic Factors): In 1988, the deposit was reported to contain 277,000 tons of ore grading 0.04 opt gold. In 1996, the deposit contains a drill-indicated geologic resource of approximately one million tons of ore grading 0.036 ounces of gold per ton. The historic workings produced few tons of lead-silver ore in the early 1950s.

Comment (Identification): This record incorporates all material from the earlier record M031227 which covers the old underground Bellview lead mine. The current record covers the present day gold silver deposit that is centered on the same historic mine and extends beyond it.

Comment (Location): The Bellview deposit is located on the southwest side of the Ruby Mountains at the head of Walker Canyon.

Comment (Workings): The historic mine is developed by a shaft and by an open cut 300 ft west of shaft. Recent drilling and surface exploration has been conducted in the mine area.

Comment (Geology): In the old workings, mineralized zones about 15 feet wide contain irregular veinlets of galena a few feet long and 1/2 inch wide parallel to the fractures

Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: gold, galena

Comment (Commodity): Gangue Materials: quartz

Comment (Deposit): Gold mineralization occurs near an anticlinal axis near the contact between the Cambrian Eldorado Dolomite and the Cambrian Secret Canyon Formation. Locally auriferous jasperoids are developed at this contact. Jasperoid breccia in old workings consists of limestone and milky comb quartz.

Comment (Development): The deposit was reportedly owned by Teck Resources in 1995, but was listed as owned by Homestake Mining Co. in 1996. A feasibility study was reportedly under way in 1996. Subsequent history is unknown.

References

Reference (Deposit): Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.

Reference (Deposit): Jackson, Phil, 1991Geology of the Bellview Disseminated Gold Deposit, Whirte Pine County, Nevada, in Geology and ore deposits of the Great Basin; field trip guidebook compendium, eds. Buffa, Ruth H; Coyner, Alan R.

Reference (Deposit): Hose, Blake, Smith, 1976, Geology and Mineral Resources of White Pine Co., Nev., Nev Bureau Mines Bull 85

Reference (Deposit): NBMG MI-1990 throughNBMG MI-2002

Reference (Deposit): BLM Claims Fiche, 1998

Reference (Deposit): NBMG OFR 83-1,2

Reference (Deposit): MASMILS 0320330310

Reference (Deposit): Ruby Lake Land Status, 1978

Reference (Deposit): Engineering and Mining Journal, March 1989

Reference (Deposit): Northern Miner, September, 1989BLM Claims Fiche, 1998

Reference (Deposit): NBMG OFR 83-1,2

Reference (Deposit): MASMILS 0320330310

Reference (Deposit): Ruby Lake Land Status, 1978

Reference (Deposit): Engineering and Mining Journal, March 1989

Reference (Deposit): Northern Miner, September, 1989

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.