Victoria Mine

The Victoria Mine is a copper mine located in Elko county, Nevada at an elevation of 2,198 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Victoria Mine
Secondary: Anaconda-Victoria

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Secondary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Bismuth

Location

State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Dolly Varden District (Granite Mountain, Mizpah)

Land Status

Land ownership: Private
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: Patented

Workings

Type: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Encore Renaissance Resources Corp
Percent: 10.00
Home Office: Vancouver BC V5C 2M7 Canada
Info Year: 2010

Owner Name: Kokanee Placer Ltd
Percent: 90.00
Home Office: White Rock BC v4b 3w1 Canada
Info Year: 2010

Owner Name: Anaconda Co., General Mining Division
Years: 1978 -

Owner Name: Hecla Mining Co.
Company ID: 2600558
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Idaho
Info Year: 1985
Years: 1985 -

Owner Name: Royal Standard Minerals, Inc,
Info Year: 2001

Production

Year: 1973
Description: Waste Stripped (Surface Mine) 188000 Tonnage Waste/ Annual
Year: 1973
Description: Copper Ore Mined
Year: 1974
Description: Waste Stripped (Surface Mine) 2469000 Tonnes Waste/ Annual
Year: 1974
Mined: 132400.000 mt
Material type: copper ore mined
Description: Copper Ore Mined 132400 Tonnes Ore / Annual
Year: 1975
Description: Waste Stripped 1555000 Tonnes Waste/ 10 Months
Year: 1976
Description: Waste Stripped (Surface Mine) 396000 Tonnes Waste/ Annual
Year: 1975
Mined: 253100.000 mt
Material type: copper ore mined
Description: Copper Ore Mined 253100 Tonnes Ore / 10 Months
Year: 1976
Description: Copper Ore Mined 121100 Tonnes Ore / Annual
Year: 1976
Mined: 313626.000 mt
Description: Material Treated 313626 Tonnes Annual

Deposit

Record Type: Deposit
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: replacement-contact zone
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Milling Method: Flotation
Year First Production: 1872
Year Last Production: 1970
Discovery Year: 1872
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Skarn Cu
Model Name: Porphyry Cu

Orebody

Form: irregular, pipe

Not available

Structure

Type: L
Structure: collapsed pipe

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration: minor silicification
Alteration Text: minor silicification

Rocks

Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Cretaceous
Age Old: Jurassic

Name: Limestone
Role: Host
Description: Limestone Dolomite Quartzite
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Permian

Name: Shale
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Permian

Name: Skarn (Tactite)
Role: Host
Description: limestone-brecciated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Permian

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Quartz
Ore: Azurite
Ore: Bismuthinite
Ore: Copper
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Limonite
Ore: Chalcocite
Ore: Malachite
Ore: Chrysocolla
Ore: Tremolite
Ore: Limonite
Ore: Bornite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Jasper
Gangue: Pyrite
Unknown: Chrysocolla
Unknown: Covellite

Comments

Comment (Geology): MINERALIZED ZONE ORIENTATION AND DIMENSIONS DESCRIBE BRECCIA PIPE ONLY THE GENERAL SIZE OF THE ORE BODY IS MEDIUM. TYPE OF ORE BODY IS SKARN-BRECCIA PIPE. ORIGIN OF ORE BODY IS ALSO BY SOLUTION COLAPSE. SHAPE OF ORE BODY ARCUATE IN PLANE. TYPE OF WALL ROCK ALTERATION ALSO INCLUDES OXIDATION. DIP OF MINERALIZED ZONE IS 45.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): SEE NV DIR. BIB. REF. #836 FOR ADDITIONAL RESERVE-RESOURCES.

Comment (Geology): AGE OF MINERALIZATION POSSIBLY CRETACEOUS. THE MINERAL WITTICHENITE IS ALSO PRESENT.

Comment (Deposit): 1985 UPDATE. ACCORDING TO NEV. BUMINES, THERE WAS MINOR ACTIVITY AT THE MINE IN 1981. NO PRODUCTION SINCE THAT TIME, THE PROPERTY HAS REMAINED INACTIVE. GENERAL LOCATION IS ABOUT 126 KM NE OF ELY. THE MILL IS LOCATED ON SITE AND IS CURRENTLY INACTIVE AND ON STANDBY. THE MILL METHOD IS FLOTATION WITH A PROCESS RATE OF 907 MT/D THE PRODUCT TYPE IS CU-AG CONCENTRATE. MINING METHOD IS SUB LEVEL BLOCK CAVING.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): KACZMAROWSKI, J., FINAL GEOLOGY REPORT ON VICTORIA MINE 1977, 46PP.

Comment (Workings): A COUNTY ROAD CONNECTING CURRIE, NEVADA WITH HIGHWAY ALT 50 PASSES THROUGH THE VICTORIA PROPERTY WATER IS PUMPED FROM THE GOSHUTE VALLEY, NINE MILES FROM THE MINE OPERATION ELECTRICITY IS TRANSMITTED 89 MILES FROM ELY, NEVADA.

Comment (Geology): LINE 3 IS A CALCAREOUS SANDSTONE-QUARTZITE. LINE 4 OF GEOMETRY IS A QUARTZ LATITE PORPHYRY DIKE. LINE 5 OF GEOMETRY IS A PORPHYRITIC QUARTZ MONZONITE. THE VICTORIA ORE BODY IS A BRECCIA-FILL DEPOSIT IN THE PEQUOP LIMESTONE FORMATION NEAR THE CONTACT OF THE MELROSE PORPHYRITIC QUARTZ MONZONITE STOCK OF CRETACOUS-JURASSIC AGE. BEDDED LIMESTONE, DOLOMITE, AND SANDSTONE SEDIMENTS OF THE PEQUOP SURROUND THE VICTORIA ORE BODY HAVE STRIKES TRENDING FROM N 34 E TO ALMOST DUE EAST. DIPS RANGE FROM 0 TO 34 S TO SW, WITH AN AVERAGE DIP OF APPROXIMATELY 20 SW (NEVADA DIRECTORY BIB. REF. #337).

Comment (Identification): This record incorporates all pertinent material from earlier MRDS records # W002693, and M233452 which could be deleted, as this record is more complete.

Comment (Workings): early shaft (now flooded); later open pit

Comment (Geology): Tremolite occurs as veinlets and as fibers in fibrous altered limestone.

Comment (Economic Factors): From 1908-1981, the Victoria mine produced 5.3 tonnes of silver and 16.5 kilotonnes of copper from 544 kilotonnes of ore (with negligible amounts of gold, lead, and bismuth). In 1981, the Victoria deposit was estimated to contain a remaining resource of 1247 kilotonnes of ore containing 15 tonnes of silver, 32 kilotonnes of copper, and an unknown amount of gold (Long and others, 1998).

Comment (Commodity): Gangue Materials: jasper, quartz, limonite, tremolite.

Comment (Deposit): contact zone

Comment (Development): The property was actively worked for about 2 years after its discovery in 1872, with copper ores smelted at Dolly Varden Spring. Production was intermittent in the 1870s, 1908-1945,1956 and in 1973 the Anaconda Co. opened the mine by means of an open pit to develop the copper-silver-bismuth ores. The area was being prospected by Royal Standard Minerals, Inc. in 2001.

Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: copper carbonates, chryscolla, malachite, chalcocite, limonite, chalcopyrite, bornite, bismuthinite

References

Reference (Deposit): 836. WORLD MINING (SAN FRANCISCO) VICTORIA COPPER MINE SHUT DOWN BY DAY MINES. V. 34, NO. 10, 1981, P. 76.

Reference (Deposit): 824. WORLD MINING (SAN FRANCISCO) OIL COMPANY, ARCO, PURCHASES COPPER COMPANY. V. 30, NO. 2, 1977, PP. 64-68.

Reference (Deposit): 823. WORLD MINING (SAN FRANCISCO) WHAT'S GOING ON IN WORLD MINING - UNITED STATES: NEVADA; TENNECO DROPS OUT, ASARCO MAKES HIGHER BID FOR SHARES TO CONTROL ANACONDA. V. 29, NO. 5, 1976, PP. 97-98.

Reference (Deposit): 788. WESTERN MINING NEWS (SPOKANE, WA). DAY ACQUIRES VICTORIA MINE. MAY 25, 1979, P. 1.

Reference (Ownership): WESTERN MINING NEWS. DAY ACQUIRES VICTORIA MINE. V. 11, NO. 28, MAY 25, 1979, P. 1.

Reference (Deposit): 25. ATLANTIC RICHFIELD CO. FORM S-14 REGISTRATION STATEMENT. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, 1976, PP. 60-68.

Reference (Deposit): 476. NEVADA MINING ASSOCIATION (RENO). DAY MINES WILL RE-ACTIVATE ELKO UNDERGROUND COPPER MINE. NV MIN. ASSOC. BULL., V. 3, NO. 7, 1979, P. 5.

Reference (Deposit): 337. KACZMAROWSKI, J. FINAL GEOLOGY REPORT ON VICTORIA MINE, 1977, 46 PP.; AVAILABLE AT NV BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL., RENO, NV.

Reference (Geology): Atkinson,W., Kaczmarowski, J., and Erickson, A., 1982, Geology of a skarn-breccia orebody at the Victoria Mine, Elko County, Nevada: Economic Geology; v. 77; no. 4; p. 899-918

Reference (Deposit): GRANGER, A. E., ET AL., 1957, GEOLOGY AND MINERA L RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 54, PP. 50-52

Reference (Deposit): Currie Land Status, 1979

Reference (Deposit): website :http://www.royal-standard.com/feb201998.html
URL: http://www.royal-standard.com/feb201998.html

Reference (Deposit): Kaczmarowski, 1976 (MD52, I2)

Reference (Deposit): Amer. Mines (2000), 1999

Reference (Deposit): NBMG Bull 106

Reference (Deposit): NBMG MI-79; MI-80; MI-81

Reference (Deposit): LaPointe and others, 1991, Mineral Resources of Elko County

Reference (Deposit): Hill, James M, (1916) Notes on some Mining Districts in Eastern Nevada, USGS Bull. 648.

Reference (Deposit): Smith, Roscoe M., 1976, Mineral Resources of Elko County, Nevada, USGS Open File Report 1976-56, 194 pp.

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.

Nevada Gold

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