The Wright Window Deposit is a gold mine located in Elko county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Wright Window Deposit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Wright Window Deposit
Secondary: one of Anglogold?s Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture gold properties
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Jerritt Canyon 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: U.S Forest Service, Elko District
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Queenstake Resources
Info Year: 2006
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Sediment-hosted Au
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Sediment-hosted Au
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: R
Description: Roberts Mountains thrust fault
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: gold
Comment (Development): Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture (AngloGold, Ltd, 70%; Meridian Gold Co., 30%) (2001)
Comment (Economic Factors): In 1986, the remaining resource in the Wright Window deposit was estimated to be about 4.25 kilotonnes of gold and an unknown amount of silver contained in 1180 tons of ore Production in 1992 from this deposit was 3500 oz Au. Total production data was included in Jerritt Canyon Mines total production, and not released as separate production data for each deposit.
References
Reference (Deposit): NBMG, 1996, SP MI95
Reference (Deposit): Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.
Reference (Deposit): NBMG MI-86 thru 98
Reference (Deposit): NBMG Map 91, 2nd, 3rd editions
Reference (Deposit): NBMG Bull. 106
Reference (Deposit): Tuscarora Land Status Map, 1979
Reference (Deposit): Daly and others, 1991
Reference (Deposit): Pay Dirt, Oct 1986
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.
