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Buckskin National Mine

Past Producer in Humboldt county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Antimony, Iron, Arsenic, Lead, Zinc, Copper
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Controls for ore emplacement
  15. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  16. Mining district
  17. Land status
  18. Ownership information
  19. Production statistics
  20. Workings at the site
  21. Links to other databases
  22. Bibliographic references
  23. General comments
  24. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040312
MRDS ID M055027
Record type Site
Current site name Buckskin National Mine
Alternate or previous names Bell and Ward Claims, Bell Group, Orman Bell Claims, Finis Claim 1/4 Mile South, Buckskin Mountain Property- Area Including Buckskin National,, Hatch? Halcyon Mines,, Etc Is Under Lease To Asarco-By Buckskin National Gold Mining Co., NBMG Sample- Sites 479, -480, 481;
Related records 10281271, 10310424

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.54042, 41.79294 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 60 MILES NORTH OF WINNEMUCCA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Humboldt(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckskin Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Quinn River Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

McDermitt(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Little Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Humboldt

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 045N 039E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NORTH-EAST FLANK OF BUCKSKIN MOUNTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Antimony Critical Secondary
Iron Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORIGINALLY LOCATED FOR GOLD AND SILVER

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Electrum Ore
Miargyrite Ore
Naumannite Ore
Pyrargyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Stibnite Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Opal Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) See Comments

Analytical data

Result AVG. GRADE OF ORE $16/TON IN 1938. SAMPLES CONTAINED UP TO 9.18% SB. SAMPLE 479 OF SELECT ORE-GRADE VEIN MATTER FROM THE DUMP OF THE BUCKSKIN NATIONAL MINE CONTAINS 5 % FE, 0.05 % M-G, 0.05 % TI, 300 PPM MN, 500 PPM AG, 7000 PPM AS, 20 PPM AU (- 0 PPM AU BY AA ANALYSIS), 100 PPM B, 300 PPM BA, 3 PPM BE, 10-0 PPM CU, 50 PPM LA, 50 PPM PB, 2000 PPM SB, 10 PPM V, 70 PPM -ZR. SAMPLE 480 OF SELECT VEIN MATTER FROM THE DUMP OF THE HALC-YON MINE NORTH OF THE BUCKSKIN NATIONAL CONTAINS 0.1 % FE, 0.0-2 % MG, 0.01 % TI, 50 PPM MN, 300 PPM AG, 1.6 PPM AU (BY AA AN-ALYSIS) 30 PPM B, 150 PPM BA, 3 PPM BE, 10 PPM CU, 50 PPM LA, -20 PPM PB, 200 PPM SB, 10 PPM ZR. SAMPLE 481 OF SELECT VEIN MA-TTER FROM THE APEX OF THE BELL VEIN, A FEW HUNDRED FT WEST OF -THE HALCYON MINE, CONTAINS 1% FE, 0.05 % TI, 50 PPM MN, 50 PPM-AG, 500 PPM AS, 100 PPM B, 150 PPM BA, 2 PPM BE, 50 PPM CU, 50- PPM LA, 20 PPM PB, +10000 PPM SB, 5 PPM SC, 100 PPM Y, 70 PPM- ZR, AND 0.05 PPM AU (BY AA ANALYSIS).

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 150
USGS model code 25c
Deposit model name Epithermal vein, Comstock
Mark3 model number 16

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 15
    Dating method K-Ar
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 15
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 15
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 15
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Quartz Latite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 15
    Dating method K-Ar
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary
    Chronological age 15
    Dating method K-Ar

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.54042, 41.79294
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Two Approximately Orthogonal Fault Sets Have Influenced Rock Distribution And Hydrothermal Mineralization. These R-Un Approximately N-S And E-W.

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N15W
    Dip 76W
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 914.4M
    Width 24.38M
    Depth to top 3.05M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • "Fissure Vein", N-Trending Faults And E-W Trending Faults

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.COM: FISSURE VEIN AVERAGES 4 FT WIDE, OPENED UP FOR 3000 FT. ALONG STRIKE ON THE 10-FT LEVEL. THE RHYOLITIC ROCKS ARE PERALUMINOUS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1907
Discoverer John Dermody
Year of first production 1912
Production years 1930, 1932-1933, 1938-1941

Mining district

District name National District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Nevada Lucky Tiger Mining Co. ; Asarco
    First year 1938
  • Type Owner
    Owner C. Mc Cormick Et. Al. , Buckskin National Gold Mining Co.
    First year 1942

Production statistics

  • Year 1957
    Period To 1957
    Material AU
    Description Cp_Grade: ^10-15 Lb/Ton
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Mercury Mercury 5647g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • AVG. GRADE OF ORE IN 1938 WAS $16/TON; UP TO 9.18% S.B.IN 1983, ORE GRADE IN VEINS WAS REPORTED TO BE APPROXIMATELY 0.6 OZ/TON AU, 20 OZ/TON AG.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • SOME RESERVES OF LESS THAN 2 LB ORE IN 1949. ITEM 1 EST AS OF 1958.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1981.2M
    Overall depth 28.04M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT, ADITS, OTHER WORKINGSMILL BURNED IN 1937. MOST DRIFTS ARE ALONG N-TRENDING VEINS. CORE DRILL HOLES.

Comments on development

  • IN JUNE, 1937, 50 MEN WERE EMPLOYED PRODUCING 50 T.P. D.. ASARCO HAS DRILLED 1000 M OR MORE OF CORE HOLES. GEOLOGIST PETE VIKRE LED NBMG GEOLOGISTS ON A TOUR OF THE PROPE-RTY IN 1983. NO ACTIVITY AT THAT TIME.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT CO., NEV; NEV. BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 59.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA; U.S. BM, INF. CIRC. 6995

  • Deposit

    LINDGREN, W., 1915, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE NATIONAL MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA: U.S.G.S. BULL 601.

  • Deposit

    LAWRENCE, E.F., 1963, ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; NEV. BUR-MINES BULL. 61.

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L. J. AND BONHAM, M. F., JR., 18 AUG 83, FIELD EXAMINATION AND TOUR LED BY PETE VIKRE OF ASARCO MINERALS,-AND SAMPLE ANALYSES.

  • Deposit

    VIKRE, P. G., 1985, PRECIOUS METAL VEIN SYSTEMS IN THE NATIONAL DISTRICT, HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA: ECON. GEOL., VO-L. 80, NO. 2, P. 360-393.

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    NBMG MAP 88, 1986, GEOLOGY OF BUCKSKIN MOUNTAIN, BY P. G. VIKRE.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA DEPT. OF MINERAL, 1993

  • Deposit

    MILLER AND RUMPSEY, USBM PRODUCTION FIGURES

  • Production

    WILLDEN, R., 1964 NEVADA DEPT OF MINERALS , 1993

  • Reserve-Resource

    NEVADA DEPT OF MINERALS, 1993

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SILVER AND GOLD CLAIMS WERE STAKED ON BUCKSKIN PEAK PRIOR TO 1907. THE BUCKSKIN NATIONAL MINE WAS WORKED INTERMITTENTLY FROM 1912 THROUGH 1940. THE PROPERTY COMPRISES 2 PATENTED AND 9 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. THE BUCKSKIN NATIONAL GOLD MINING CO. WAS INCORPORATED IN 1912. IT WAS EQUIPPED WITH A 100-TON FLOTATION MILL, BUT THE ORE WAS FOUND TO BE UNSUITABLE FOR THE FLOTATION PROCESS. FROM ABOUT 1928 TO 1938 THE PROPERTY WAS RUN BY THE NEVADA LUCKY, TIGER MINING CO. UNDER LEASE. IN JUNE, 1937, 50 MEN WERE EMPLOYED PRODUCING 50 T.P.D. DEVELOPEMENT CONSISTED OF 3 ADITS (ONE 1250 FT. LONG), A SHAFT, AND OTHER WORKINGS TOTALLING 6500 FEET ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit MINERALIZATION CONSISTS OF A COMPLETE SYSTEM FROM SURFACE MG DEPOSITS IN SINTER TO SBRICH UPPER PORTIONS OF VEINS TO DEEPER RUBY SILVER AND GOLDBEARING QUARTZ VEINS.THE MINES EXPLORE 2 N15W, 75SW VEINS WHICH ARE PARALLEL TO AND ON STRIKE WITH THE NATIONAL AND BIRTHDAY VEINS 7 KM TO THE NW. THE EASTERN VEIN IS THE LAWRY AND THE WESTERN VEIN IS THE BELL VEIN. THE TOPS OF THE VEIN SYSTEM CAN BE SEEN AT THE SURFACE IN PITS AND STOPES. THE VEINS ARE ON A 3M WIDE SILICIFIED ZONE WITH VEINS AND STOCKWORKS OF FINE-GRAINED CHALCEDONIC QUARTZ WITH FINE LAMINATED CRUSTIFICATION. STIBNITE OCCURS IN UPPER PARTS OF THESE VEINS; IT IS ABSENT OR LATE-STAGE IN DEEPER VEINS. THERE ARE 4 STAGES OF VEIN MINERALIZATION: STAGE IV (LATEST, HIGHEST IN SYSTEM) STIBNITE AND AG SULFOSALTS AND FINE CRUSTIFORM CHALCEDONY; STAGE III STRONG PY AND MARCASITE; STAGE II RHYTHMICALLY CRUSTIFIED QUARTZCHALCEDONY VEINS WITH AG LFOSALTS AND NATIVE AU (ELECTRUM); STAGE I (DEEPEST) SILVER MINERALS ASSOCIATEDWITH WHITE KMICA
Deposit AND FELDSPARSTABLE ALTERATION. THE TOPS OF THESE VEINS "APEX" ABOUT 200 M BELOW THE PALEOSURFACE (POOL SINTERS, ETC.). FLUID INCLUSIONS FROM THESE VEINS INDICATE TEMPERATURES OF APPROX 175 DEGREES C WITH SOME INDICATIONS OF OVERPRESSURE. HYDROTHERMAL BRECCIAS NOTED. THE BELL VEIN UNDERGROUND CONSISTS OF A STRONG IRONSULFIDE ZONE SEVERAL METERS WIDE WITH A 2060 CM CRUSTIFIED QUARTZ VEIN IN CENTER.; MODEL NAME COULD ALSO BE: HOT-SPRING AU-AG.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-FEB-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Moyer, Lorre A.) U.S. Geological Survey

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