The Gold Bug Mine is a copper mine located in Mineral county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Gold Bug Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gold Bug Mine
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Location
State: Nevada
County: Mineral
District: Hawthorne District
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: PODS
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Silicified Limestone
Rocks
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Cretaceous
Name: Quartz Monzonite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Gangue: Muscovite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): COPPER IS SPORADICALLY DISTRIBUTED IN QUARTZ MONZONITE, IN SILICATED LIMESTONE, AND IN LOCAL PODS OF TACTITE. ORE DEPOSIT FOLLOWS LIMESTINE-QUARTZ MONZONITE CONTACT FOR PART OF ITS COURSE AND THEN ENTERS THE QUARTZ MONZONITE.
Comment (Location): NE CORNER SEC. 8
Comment (Production): SOME PRODUCTION IN 1919
Comment (Geology): SEVERAL HAND SPECIMENS FROM TACTITE PODS SHOWED NO EVIDENCE OF TUNGSTEN MINERALS
References
Reference (Deposit): ARCHBOLD AND PAUL, 1970, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PAMLICO MINING DISTRICT, MINERAL CO., NEV.,; NBMG BULL. 74
Reference (Deposit): LINCOLN, 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA; NEVADA NEWSLETTER PUBLISHING CO.
Reference (Deposit): MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR YEAR 1919.
Reference (Production): MINERALS YEARBOOK 1919
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.
