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Gold Bar Mine

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10310496
MRDS ID M231913
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Bar Mine

Comments on the site identification

  • This record is an updated version of older record M231913 which could be deleted from the database

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.89117, 36.93829 (WGS84)
Elevation 1610
Relative position The Gold Bar Mine is located about 8 miles west-northwest of Beatty and 4 miles northwest of Rhyolite, 2 miles NNW of Bullfrog Mtn.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bullfrog Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Beatty(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Death Valley National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011S 045E 36 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • The Gold Bar Mine is located about 2 miles NNW of Bullfrog Mountain.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Materials: auriferous pyrite, native gold
  • Gangue Materials: gangue minerals: quartz, calcite

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Calcite Ore
Quartz Gangue

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 Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Rock type qualifier rhyolitic volcanic rocks
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.89117, 36.93829
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form tabular
    Strike N55-65E
    Dip 65NW
    Width 30.48M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1906
Year of first production 1906
Year of last production 1991
Production years 1906-1908, 1987-1991

Mining district

District name Bullfrog District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area
Area name Tonopah BLM administrative district
Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Angst Inc.
    Year 1991
    First year 1988
  • Type Owner
    Owner Chulick, Mike
    Home office Winters, Ca
    First year 1951

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 1481.63M

Comments on the workings information

  • Old workings consist of a 500 foot, 64 degree inclined shaft. The more recent mine was developed by an open pit in the 1980s-1990s.

Comments on other economic factors

  • 1987 reserves were reported as 1.23 million tons of gold ore.
    The mine produced from 1987 through 1991, with an unknown amount of total production.

Comments on development

  • The mine was one of the original Bullfrog era underground mines discovered and mined in the early 1900s. A mill was erected on the property in 1907. Weekly shipments of 100 to 150 tons of high grade ore were being made in September 1907, but most mining had ceased by 1908.
    The mine was operated sporadically thereafter and in 1951 was owned by Mike Chulick of Winters, California.
    The property was explored by Columbus Mines Inc. of Reno in 1986, at which time Angst Inc. applied for 2 air quality permits for construction on the Gold Bar property with production slated for 1988. The mine produced from 1987 though 1991. When in operation during these years, it employed as many as 48 persons in the open pit, heap leach cyanidation process mine and mill.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    Ransome, F.L. et al, 1910, Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bullfrog District: USGS Bull. 407, p. 123-124.

  • Deposit

    Kral, V.E., 1951, Mineral Resources of Nye Co.: NBMG Bull. 50, p. 37

  • Deposit

    NBMG, 1988, NBMG MI-1987-2004.

  • Deposit

    NBMG Mining District File 218, press clippings.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit The mine was developed on vein deposits in silicic volcanic rocks.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1981 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1988 La Pointe, D.D. U.S. Geological Survey
Reporter 01-DEC-2005 LaPointe D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Editor 01-SEP-2007 Schruben, Paul G. U.S. Geological Survey Converted from S&A FileMaker format to Oracle. Edit checks on rocks, units, and ages with Geolex search, and other fields.

Beyond USGS

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