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Billy the Kid Pit

Prospect in Storey county in Nevada, United States with commodities Silver, 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. 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. Links to other databases
  20. Bibliographic references
  21. General comments
  22. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055217
MRDS ID RE00291
Record type Site
Current site name Billy the Kid Pit
Alternate or previous names Btk Pit, Btk, Btk Deposit
Related records 10085011, 10310466

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.651, 39.26657 (WGS84)
Elevation 1615
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RENO, OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF GOLD HILL ON RIGHT SIDE OF NEVADA HIGHWAY 342.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Storey(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Virginia City(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Carson(hydrologic unit)

Carson(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Storey

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016N 021E 08 N2 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE AMERICAN RAVINE; HARTFORD HILL SEPARATES THIS PIT FROM LUCERNE PIT (MRDS W700442).

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Argentite Ore
Silver Ore
Calcite Gangue
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) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
    Rock unit name Alta
    Rock description Alta
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Miocene

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Block Faulting

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Silver City Fault Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • TYPICAL OF SILVER CITY LODE, GOLD MINERALIZATION IS CONTAINED WITHIN BRECCIAS. THE HANGING WALL AND MINERALIZATION IS YOUNGER, TERTIARY VOLCANICS, WITH FOOT WALL COMPOSED OF MESOZOIC UNITS. LOCALLY, TERTIARY-AGED ROCKS ARE ALSO FOUND AS A FOOTWALL.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No

Mining district

District name Comstock

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Rea Gold
  • Type Owner
    Owner Rea Gold; Bmr Gold

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1993
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 1.327 g/mt Gold Major 1993

Comments on the workings information

  • THE PIT IS DESIGNED TO REMOVE 607,000 TONS OF ORE CONTAINING 0.047 OZ/TON AU AND 0.28 OZ/TON AG. TRUCKS WILL TRANSPORT ORE TO HEAP LEACH PROCESSING FACILITIES.

Comments on development

  • NO MRDS RECORD OF EARLIER WORK IN AMERICAN RAVINE, ALTHOUGH TOPOGRAPHIC MAP INDICATES SOME TRENCHS. EXPLORATORY DRILLING HAS OCCURRED SINCE 1990. PIT IS EXPECTED TO BE OPERATIONAL BY 1994.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    "COMSTOCK DRILLING EXTENDS LUCERNE," THE NORTHERN MINER, MAY 24, 1993, P. 10.

  • Deposit

    BECKER, G.F., 1882, GEOLOGY OF THE COMSTOCK LODE AND THE WASHOE DISTRICT: USGS MONO 3.

  • Deposit

    STAFF, 1888, MAP OF THE WASHOE DISTRICT (SHOWING MINING CLAIMS): USGS, PLATE III.

  • Deposit

    GIANELLA, V.P., 1936, GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER CITY DISTRICT AND THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COMSTOCK LODE, NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 29.

  • Deposit

    BURGOYNE, A.A., APRIL 1993, REA GOLD CORP. OPERATING PLAN SUMMARY FOR SOUTH COMSTOCK JOINT VENTURE: UNPUBLISHED LETTER.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CONCENTRATED GOLD AND SILVER ARE CONTAINED WITHIN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL INTERLOCKING QUARTZ STOCKWORK AND IN MAGANIFEROUS-QUARTZ-CALCITE VEINS. OUTSIDE OF THE MAGANIFEROUS ZONE, SIGNIFICANT GOLD AND/OR SILVER VALUES GENERALLY CONFORM TO THE GEOMETRY OF THE SILVER CITY LODE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1993 Marcus, S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1993 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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