Chapman - Anderson Group

The Chapman - Anderson Group is a copper mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Chapman - Anderson Group
Secondary: NBMG # 3551 # 3552

Commodity

Primary: Copper
Tertiary: Iron

Location

State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Santa Fe

Land Status

Not available

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Type: Surface/Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Agnes Bennett
Years: 1935 -

Production

Year: 1917
Time Period: 1913 - 1917
Material type: CU
Description: Cp_Grade: ^2 - 6 % Cu

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Contact Metasomatic
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: DISSEMINATED, IRREGULAR

Structure

Type: L
Description: Volcano Peak Normal Fault Strikes N 40 W And Dips Sw - Mineralized; Champion Normal Fault Strikes E-W And Dips South - No Valuable Ore Has Been Found In Footwall Of This Fault

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: The Orebodies Are Largely Copper Carbonates And Oxides. They Appear As Pods Or Irreg. Masses In The Shear Zone.Silicification Also.

Rocks

Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous

Name: Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Triassic

Analytical Data

Not available

Materials

Ore: Hematite

Comments

Comment (Location): ESTIMATE LOCATION

Comment (Commodity): EARLY OPERATIONS REMOVED 4 TO 9 PERCENT CU LEAVING LOW GRADE SHELLS STANDING. LATER WORK MINED 2.5 PERCENT CU WITH HIGH GRADE. UNSPECIFIED TONNAGE AT 2.5 PERCENT GRADE REPRESENTS POSSIBLE PRESENT POTENTIAL.

Comment (Production): FIGURES DERIVED FROM ANDERSON MINE AND NEV. CHAMPION COPPER CO. - LISTED SEPARATELY

Comment (Development): PRODUCTION DURING WORLD WAR I, DRILLING HAS OCCURRED TO THE EAST WITHIN THE LAST FIFTEEN YEARS. ; ECON.COM: 3000 TONS OF 5% COPPER (1915-1916)

Comment (Workings): LEVELS AT 100 , 200 , 300 FT. IN THE DEEP SHAFT AND SEVERAL THOUSAND FT. OF WORKINGS OPEN CUTS AND GLORY HOLES AT THE SURFACE. THREE 60*20 FOOT MODERN SHEDS FILLED TO THE CEILING WITH CORE. THERE HAS BEEN TEN MINOR WORKINGS THAT HAS ALSO CONTRIBUTED TO THE ORE.

Comment (Geology): ORE IN IRREGULAR CHIMNEYS AND MASSES OF GARNETIZED ROCK. ORE COMPLETELY OXIDIZED AND POROUS, SOFT AND FRIABLE

Comment (Deposit): SANTA FE DISTRICT ACCREDITED WITH PRODUCTION OF 8,849,597 LBS. CU BETWEEN 1912 AND 1919 . CHAMPION - ANDERSON GROUP OF CLAIMS COMPRISE A NET AREA OF APPROX. 115 ACRES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): CLARK, CLIFTON, W., 1922 , GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA FE DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV., UNIV OF CAL. PRESS, VOL. 14 , NO. 1

Reference (Deposit): COUCH, CARPENTER, 1943 , NEVADA'S METAL AND MINERAL PRODUCTION ( 1859 - 1940 ), UNIV. OF NEV. BULL., VOL. 27 , NO. 4

Reference (Deposit): TELLURIDE CLAIMS, SANTE FE MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL COUNTY, QUADE SITE VISIT 4-9-89,NBMG UNPUBLISHED DISTRICT MINING FILES (TINGLEY FILES).

Reference (Production): COUCH AND CARPENTER F ( 2 )

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.