The California Mine - Dash Pit is a gold mine located in Elko county, Nevada.
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California Mine - Dash Pit MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: California Mine - Dash Pit
Secondary: Dash pit
Secondary: East Dash
Secondary: California Mountain Deposit
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Elko
District: Jerritt Canyon 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: Queenstake Resources
Info Year: 2006
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Sediment-hosted Au; Carlin-type
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Year First Production: 1997
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
Deposit Size: L
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Sediment-hosted Au
Orebody
Form: irregular to lenticular
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Sedimentary Rock
Role: Host
Description: calcareous marine
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Paleozoic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Commodity): Ore Materials: gold
Comment (Deposit): Jerritt Canyon deposits are Carlin-type replacement gold occurrences hosted by calcareous Paleozoic marine sediments. Tectonic and volcanic activity has led to complex faulting and folding which have created favourable sites for gold mineralization.
Comment (Location): UTM is to the active Dash Pit, approximately midway between the California Mountain and Coulee orebodies.
Comment (Workings): open pit
Comment (Economic Factors): The Coulee orebody in 1997 was estimated to contain 0.8 million metric tonnes of ore grading 10.4 g/mt Au.
Comment (Development): Part of the Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture (AngloGold, Ltd, 70%; Meridian Gold Co., 30%) (2001) Reserves: 2.4 million tonnes @ 8.86 g/t (attributable) 0.7 million oz Resources: 7.1 million tonnes @ 9.23 g/t (attributable) for 2.1 million oz The deposit was in production in 1997 and was an active Mine in 2001. Dash began production Apr 1997
References
Reference (Deposit): Double Mtn. Land Status Map, 1978
Reference (Deposit): GSN SP28
Reference (Deposit): website http://www.meridiangold.com/PROJECTS/JERRITT/jerritt.htm
URL: http://www.meridiangold.com/PROJECTS/JERRITT/jerritt.htm
Reference (Deposit): NBMG Bull 106
Reference (Deposit): EIS 1993 (NBMG MD79A, I36); EIS 1994 (NBMG MD79A, I35); EIS 1995 (NBMG MD79A, I39); EIS 1996 (NBMG MD79A, I41)
Reference (Deposit): NBMG MI-94, MI-97
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.
