1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Little Buck Mine

Past Producer in Lincoln county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Land status
  17. Ownership information
  18. Reserves and resources
  19. Workings at the site
  20. Links to other databases
  21. Bibliographic references
  22. General comments
  23. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046544
MRDS ID M241724
Record type Site
Current site name Little Buck Mine
Alternate or previous names Winner No. 2 Claim and Snowflake No. 10 Claim
Related records 10271013

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.05915, 37.90525 (WGS84)
Elevation 2112
Relative position ABOUT 0.25 MILE N OF BIG BUCK MINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lincoln(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Deer Lodge Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Caliente(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Escalante Desert(hydrologic unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Escalante Desert-Sevier Lake(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Lincoln

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 001N 071E 32 NW Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR HEAD OF MIDNIGHT WASH ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1982

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Gangue
Limonite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS UP TO 0.9 OZ/T AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.05915, 37.90525
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description N50w, 38ne Fault, Probably Pre-Mineral With Small Post-Mineral Movement.; Other Small Post-Mineral Faults

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N20W
    Dip 70E (+/-10-15 DEGREES)
    Thickness 0.91M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pre-Mineral Faulting Controls Vein

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Eagle Valley (Gold Springs) District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Andesite Mining Co.
    First year 1935

Comments on the production information

  • PROBABLY HAD PRODUCTION OF AS MUCH AS THE JENNIE MINE, WHICH PRODUCED 16, 391 TONS, 1907-1948.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1935
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 5.647 g/mt Gold Major 1935

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 408.43M
    Overall depth 82.3M

Comments on the workings information

  • THE LITTLE BUCK SHAFT IS INCLINED 70 DEGREE AND HAS 4 LEVELS AT 70 FT, 135 FT, 185 FT AND 270 FT. THERE ARE 60 FT OF DRIFTS ON THE 70 FT LEVEL, 340 ON THE 1358 520 ON THE 185 AND 420 FT OF DRIFTS OF DRIFTS ONTHE 270 FT LEVEL. ORE BODY WAS DEVELOPED AND MINED BY RAISING FROM THE LEVELS AND STOPING ORE BETEEN THE LEVELS. SHAFT CAVED 20 FT BELOW COLLAR IN 1976

Comments on development

  • LARGEST MINE ON THE SNOWFLAKE VEIN, RIVALS THE JENNIE AS THE LARGEST PRODUCER IN THE DISTRICT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PERRY, L.I., 1976, UTAH GEOLOGY, VOL. 3, NO. 1, P.23-49, PL.2

  • Production

    PERRY, L.I., 1976, P.42.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AN EASTERN STRAND OF THE SNOWFLAKE VEIN CALLED THE LITTLE BUCK VEIN. AT SOME PLACES THERE IS A SPLITTING OF THE VEIN BUT AFTER A FEW FT THE AVERAGE WIDTH IS AGAIN DEVELOPED. BOXWORK DERIVED FROM PYRITE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1984 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.