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

Winters Creek Mine

Producer in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Geologic structures
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10310529
Record type Site
Current site name Winters Creek Mine
Alternate or previous names one of Anglogold?s Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture gold properties

Comments on the site identification

  • One of Anglogold?s Jerritt Canyon Joint Venture gold properties

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.97929, 41.41525 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

California Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Double Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Owyhee(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 41N 53E 26 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Materials: gold

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 173
USGS model code 26a.1
Deposit model name Sediment-hosted Au
Mark3 model number 17

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.97929, 41.41525
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Roberts Mountains thrust fault

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes
Discovery year 1984

Mining district

District name Independence Mountains
District name Jerritt Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category Private
Ownership category National Forest
Area name Elko District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Queenstake Resources
    Year 2006

Comments on the workings information

  • Open pit

Comments on other economic factors

  • In 1989, the remaining resource in the Winters Creek deposit was estimated to be about 8.8 kilotonnes of gold and an unknown amount of silver contained in 2145tons of ore.
    In 1991 the reserves of the Winters Creek deposit were reported at 1,399,700 tons of ore grading 0.149 opt Au.
    Production data was included in Jerritt Canyon Mines total production, and not released as separate production data for each deposit.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG MI-86 thru 98

  • Deposit

    NBMG Map 91, 2nd, 3rd editions

  • Deposit

    EIS 1993 (NBMG MD79A, I36)

  • Deposit

    EIS 1994 (MD79A, I35)

  • Deposit

    EIS 1995 (MD79A, I39)

  • Deposit

    EIS 1996 (MD79A, I41)

  • Deposit

    NBMG Bull. 106

  • Deposit

    Double Mtn. Land Status Map, 1978

  • Deposit

    GSN SP28

  • Deposit

    Bratland, 1991

  • Deposit

    Pay Dirt, Oct 1986

  • Deposit

    Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-206A, 33 p.; 98-206B. one 3.5 inch diskette.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-2003 La Pointe, 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

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

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.