Galaxy Mine

The Galaxy Mine is a gold mine located in White Pine county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,972 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: Galaxy Mine  

State:  Nevada

County:  White Pine

Elevation: 6,972 Feet (2,125 Meters)

Commodity: Gold

Lat, Long: 39.9353, -115.48350

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Galaxy Mine MRDS details

Site Name

Primary: Galaxy Mine
Secondary: Horseshoe/Galaxy Mine
Secondary: part of Mooney Basin Mine Area


Commodity

Primary: Gold


Location

State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Bald Mountain 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.
Administrative Organization: Ely BLM district


Holdings

Not available


Workings

Not available


Ownership

Owner Name: Barrick Gold Corp.
Info Year: 2006


Production

Not available


Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: sediment-hosted gold
Operation Type: Surface
Year First Production: 1991
Year Last Production: 1992
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: S


Physiography

Not available


Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Sediment-hosted Au


Orebody

Not available


Structure

Type: R
Description: The Bald Mountain district is located in an area of thinned crust along the eastern side of the Late Proterozoic rift that split the North American craton. It is also in the west-central portion of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Antler foreland basin, and near the eastern edge of deformation related to the late Paleozoic Humboldt orogeny To the west of the Bald Mountain district, geologic interpretations are dominated by recognition of Paleozoic deformation, whereas to the east, interpretations emphasize Mesozoic contraction and plutonism and Tertiary extension.

Type: L
Description: At Galaxy, the dominant structure controls are


Alterations

Not available


Rocks

Name: Sedimentary Rock
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Early Mississippian
Age Old: Late Devonian


Analytical Data

Not available


Materials

Ore: Gold


Comments

Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: gold

Comment (Development): Development in the northeastern part of the district began in 1987. The ARM Joint Venture (Amselco with, at dif- ferent times, Occidental Petroleum, Nerco, Kennecott) began relinquishing claim groups north of Alligator Ridge Mine that were originally staked as part of an agreement with Lyle Campbell. Campbell retained and maintained the claim groups and, in November 1987, leased the Casino-Winrock area of claims to the USMX-Pegasus Joint Venture who began mining the deposit in 1991. Mining commenced in July, 1991 and was completed in 1992. Haul distance was 1.3 miles and strip ratio was 0.93:1. In 2006, Barrick Gold Corp. acquired the Galaxy Mine property through its acquisition of Placer Dome U. S., Inc.

Comment (Identification): The Galaxy Mine deposit is encompassed by Placer Dome?s Mooney Basin mine area.


References

Reference (Location): Nutt, C. J. and Hofstra, A. H., 2007, Bald Mountain Gold Mining District, Nevada: A Jurassic Reduced Intrusion-Related Gold System; Economic Geology, v. 102, pp. 1129?1155. http://econgeol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/reprint/102/6/1129.pdf
URL: http://econgeol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/reprint/102/6/1129.pdf

Reference (Location): Rockwell, Barnaby W. and Hofstra, Albert H., 2008, Identification of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data?Implications for geologic mapping and mineral resource investigations in well-studied and frontier areas; Geosphere; February 2008; v. 4; no. 1; p. 218-246, Plate 12. http://geosphere.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/4/1/218/DC1
URL: http://geosphere.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/4/1/218/DC1

Reference (Deposit): BLM, 2004, Bald Mountain Mine Exploration Program Programmatic Environmental Assessment NV040-04-023, Case File # N78825.

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.

Reference (Deposit): The Geological Society of Nevada 1996 Spring Field trip, Geology and Gold Deposits of Eastern Nevada, GSN Special Publication No. 23.

Reference (Deposit): Hitchborn and others, 1996, Geology and Gold Deposits of the Bald Mountain Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, in Geology and Ore Deposits of the American Cordillera Symposium Proceedings, eds. A. Coyner and P. Fahey.

Reference (Deposit): Nutt, C.J., Hofstra, A.H., Hart, K.S., and Mortensen, J.K., 2000, Structural setting and genesis of gold deposits in the Bald Mountain-Alligator Ridge area, east-central Nevada, in Cluer, J.K., Price, J.G., Struhsacker, E.M., Hardyman, R.F., and Morris, C.L., eds., Geology and Ore Deposits 2000: The Great Basin and Beyond: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, May 15-18, 2000, p. 513-537.

Reference (Deposit): Amer. Mines (1991-92), 1991 thru Amer. Mines (2000), 2001

Reference (Deposit): Nevada Land Status, 1990

Reference (Deposit): NBMG MI-88 through MI-02

Reference (Deposit): NBMG Map 91, 2nd, 3rd

Reference (Deposit): DEIS, 1995

Reference (Deposit): FEIS, 1995

Reference (Deposit): USMX, 1990, Annual report for 1989.

Reference (Deposit): USMX, 1992, Annual report for 1991


Nevada Gold

Gold Districts of Nevada

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