Saga Mine

The Saga Mine is a gold mine located in White Pine county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,972 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Saga Mine
Secondary: Part of Horseshoe/Galaxy Mine
Secondary: Saga No. 1 Pit
Secondary: Saga No. 2 Pit
Secondary: Saga No. 3 Pit
Secondary: Saga No. 4 Pit
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
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

Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Jurassic

Name: Porphyry
Role: Associated
Description: intrusive quartz
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Jurassic

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Jurassic

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

Name: Shale
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 (Deposit): Saga has dominant trends of N405-0W that are about parallel to the Bida trend. The deposit is hosted in the Pilot Shale and is generally of lower grade than most other Bald Mountain deposits.

Comment (Development): When mined, the ore from the Bida and Saga deposits will be processed at the Mooney Basin facility along with ore from the Top deposit. In 2006, Barrick Gold Corp. acquired the Bida and Saga deposits through its acquisition of Placer Dome U. S., Inc.

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

Comment (Location): The Saga deposit is located on the eastern flank of Little Bald Mountain. UTM is to the Saga 1 pit. The other Saga pits are within 200 meters of Saga 1.

Comment (Workings): several open pits

Comment (Economic Factors): No reserves reported as yet, but the deposit is included in Placer Dome?s current mine plan. When mined, ore from the Saga deposits will be processed at the Mooney Basin facility along with ore from the Top deposit.

References

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): Nevada Land Status, 1990

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 (Deposit): Amer. Mines (1996), 1995

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

Reference (Deposit): DEIS, 1995

Reference (Deposit): FEIS, 1995

Reference (Deposit): 2004 www.placerdome.com.

Reference (Deposit): NBMG MI-91 through MI-02

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

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

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.

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.