Minnie Mine

The Minnie Mine is a gold and silver mine located in Lander county, Nevada at an elevation of 5,801 feet.

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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

Name: Minnie Mine  

State:  Nevada

County:  Lander

Elevation: 5,801 Feet (1,768 Meters)

Commodity: Gold, Silver

Lat, Long: 40.52556, -117.11556

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Minnie Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Minnie Mine
Secondary: Tomboy-Minnie Mine


Commodity

Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Lead
Tertiary: Arsenic
Tertiary: Zinc


Location

State: Nevada
County: Lander
District: Battle Mountain District


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

Not available


Workings

Not available


Ownership

Owner Name: Battle Mountain Gold Co.

Owner Name: Duval Corp. (Now Battle Mountain Gold Co.)


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Contact Metasomatic
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1942
Year Last Production: 1982
Discovery Year: 1942
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S


Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains


Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Skarn Cu


Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR


Structure

Type: R
Description: Golconda Thrust

Type: L
Description: N-S Trending Faults; Nw-Trending Faults


Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Prograde Skarn, Retrograde Skarn


Rocks

Name: Shale
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pennsylvanian


Analytical Data

Analytical Data: H. B. CHESSHER, THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY C. 1965, STATED THAT A SMALL ORE BLOCK HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED AVERAGING 0.15 OPT AU.


Materials

Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Gangue: Tremolite
Gangue: Actinolite
Gangue: Clay
Gangue: Marcasite
Gangue: Pyrrhotite
Gangue: Chlorite
Gangue: Sphalerite


Comments

Comment (Deposit): REFER ALSO TO TOMBOY MINE (RECORD #231379).

Comment (Location): LOCATED ON W. SIDE BOX CANYON. NOTE THAT THE LOCATION FOR MINNIE MINE GIVEN IN PLATE 3 OF ROBERTS AND ARNOLD (1965) IS INCORRECT. MINNIE MINE ADJOINS TOMBOY MINE TO THE NE.

Comment (Development): 14 HOLES WERE DRILLED IN 1942 BY INTERNATIONAL SMELTING AND REFINING CO. MINED BY DUVAL CORP. (NOW BATTLE MOUNTAIN GOLD CO.) 1978-1982.

Comment (Workings): ADITS, TRENCHES, OPEN PIT.

Comment (Geology): METALS DISPLAY A ZONATION PATTERN AROUND THE DEPOSITS: ANOMALOUS AU, AG OUTLINE DEPOSITS WHERE THEY OCCUR AT OR NEAR SURFACE, SURROUNDED BY PERIPHERAL HALOES OF ANOMALOUS PB AND ZN, RESPECTIVELY. AU DEPOSITION OCCURRED PENECONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH REPLACEMENT OF EARLY DIOPSIDE ALTERATION ASSEMBLAGES BY ACTINOLITE AND CHLORITE.

Comment (Deposit): ORIGINAL WORKINGS CONSISTED OF 4 ADITS AND SEVERAL SMALL TRENCHES AND PITS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Comment (Production): LESS THAN $5,000 WORTH OF PRODUCTION UP TO THE TIME OF DUVAL'S ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY IN 1968. 1978-1982 CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION FIGURES REPRESENT COMBINED PRODUCTION FOR TOMBOY AND MINNIE DEPOSITS.


References

Reference (Deposit): BLAKE, D.W., KRETSCHMER, E.L., AND THEODORE, T.G., 1978, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF THE COPPER CANYON DEPOSITS, LANDER CO, NEV; IN GUIDEBOOK TO MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE CENTRAL GREAT BASIN: NEV. BUREAU OF MINES REPORT 32, P.45-48.

Reference (Deposit): STEWART, J.H., MCKEE, E.H., STAGER, H.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOL, BULL. 88.

Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, 1939, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, USBM INFORMATION CIRCULAR 7043.

Reference (Deposit): JACKSON, D., 1982, HOW DUVAL TRANSFORMED ITS BATTLE MOUNTAIN PROPERTIES FROM COPPER TO GOLD, ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 183, NO. 10, P. 95-99.

Reference (Production): 1978-1982 CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION: THEODORE, T. G., HOWE, S. S., BLAKE, D. W., AND WOTRUBA, P. R., 1986, GEOCHEMICAL AND FLUID ZONATION IN THE SKARN ENVIRONMENT AT THE TOMBOY-MINNIE GOLD DEPOSITS, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, VOL. 25, P. 99-128.

Reference (Analytical Data): ROBERTS, R.J., AND ARNOLD, D.C., 1965, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUADRANGLE, HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES, NEVADA, USGS BULL. 459-B.

Reference (Deposit): BLAKE, D.W., AND KRETSCHMER, E.L., 1980, GOLD DEPOSITS AT COPPER CANYON, LANDER CO, NEV.; ABSTRACT; AIME PRECIOUS METALS SYMPOSIUM, RENO, NEV.

Reference (Deposit): THEODORE, T. G., HOWE, S. S., BLAKE, D. W., AND WOTRUBA, P. R., 1986, GEOCHEMICAL AND FLUID ZONATION IN THE SKARN ENVIRONMENT AT THE TOMBOY-MINNIE GOLD DEPOSITS, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, JOURNAL OF GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION, VOL. 25, P. 99-128.

Reference (Deposit): THEODORE, T. G., 1971, GEOLOGIC MAP OF THE COPPER CANYON AREA, BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, USGS OPEN FILE REPORT 71-282.

Reference (Deposit): THEODORE, T. G., HOWE, S. S., AND BLAKE, D. W., 1990, THE TOMBOY-MINNIE GOLD DEPOSITS AT COPPER CANYON, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA, USGS BULL. 1857E, P. E43-E55.


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