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Buena Vista Mine

Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Vanadium
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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. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045406
MRDS ID M233120
Record type Site
Current site name Buena Vista Mine
Related records 10124573

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.17208, 39.97462 (WGS84)
Elevation 1341
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 1000m-Stripmine Occupies Much Of This Area

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buena Vista Hills South(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Carson Desert(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 024N 034E 03,04,05,08,09,10 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • ON SW FLANK OF THE BUENA VISTA HILLS ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Hematite Ore
Magnetite Ore
Apatite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Scapolite Gangue
Sphene Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Scapolitization, Chloritization

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE VARIES: 53.8, 60.6 AND 63.8% FE, 66.87% FE.
Result 0.31% V205

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 62
USGS model code 18d
Deposit model name Skarn Fe

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Humboldt Gabbroic Complex
    Rock description Humboldt Gabbroic Complex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Leach Fromation
    Rock description Leach Fromation
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.17208, 39.97462
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Post-Mineral Faulting Off Sets Ore Body; Nw-Trending Fault

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR TO LENTICULAR
    Length 609.6M
    Width 152.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Cross-Faulting Formed Brecciated Zones Which Localized Ore Deposits; Shear Zones; Post-Mineral Faulting

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1898
Discoverer John T. Reid, Of Lovelock
Year of first production 1951
Year of last production 1960

Mining district

District name Mineral Basin District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Columbia Iron Co., A Subsideiary Of U. S. Steel (1960'S)

Production statistics

  • Year 1953
    Period 1951-1953
    Material ORE FE
    Accuracy Accurate
    Description Cp_Grade: ^Over 57% Fe
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Ore Iron Iron 57wt-pct

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PITS, USING 20-FT BENCHES

Comments on development

  • PATENTED IN 1901F PURCHASED IN 1941 BY C.W. DUNTON AND A.S. VINNER OF ALHAMBRA, CA, ASSOC. WITH MINERAL MATERIALS CA. ORE WAS SHIPPED TO JAPAN IN 1951 UNTIL 1953. DEPOSIT WAS EXPLORED BY THE USBM IN 1945. THEY OUTLINED AN ORE BODY OF 350,000 TONS ORE AVERAGING 54% FE, 0.04% S, AND 0.49% P. RECENT MINING SHOWED ORE TO BE OF HIGHER GRADE. (SEE GEN. BELOW)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REEVES, R.G., AND KRAL, V.E., 1955, IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; PT. A: GEOLOGY AND IRON ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL AND PERSHING COUNTIES,NV; NBMG, BULL S3, PT. A.

  • Deposit

    NICKLE, NEIL L., 1968, GEOLOGY OF THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE BUENA VISTA HILLS, CHURCHILL CO., NV.; UNPUB. M.S. THESIS, UCLA.

  • Production

    REEVES & RKAL, (1955) EP. 23

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PRINCIPAL ORE BODIES ARE REPLACEMENT OF DIORITE, WITH SOME REPLACEMENT OF METAVOLCANICS, TOO.
Deposit PRUDUCTION CONTINUED INTERMITTENTLY UNTIL 1960, WHEN THE PROPERTY WAS SOLD TO COLUMBIA IRON MINING CO., ASUBSIDIARY OF U.S. STEEL CORP. IT HAS BEEN IDLE SINCE THEN. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-81 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

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