Buckhorn

Eureka County, Nevada, United States

GoldSilverArsenicMercuryTungstenThalliumAntimonyCopperZinc

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Description

Joe Lynn, W. S. Mcrea, William Ebbert, John Swan

Commodities

PrimaryGold, Silver

TertiaryArsenic, Mercury, Tungsten, Thallium, Antimony, Copper, Zinc

Commodity typeM

Deposit

Deposit typeHot Spring

Model150: Epithermal vein, Comstock

Deposit sizeS

WorkingsSurface

Ore controlHigh Angle Normal Faults Acted As Conduits For Hypogene Hydrothermal Fluids While Subsidiary Fracture Systems Increased Permeability In The Basalts Allowing The Development Of Stockwork Mineralization. Overlying Graben Fill Sediments May Have Locally Acted As An Impermeable Caprock.

Materials

Ore mineralsCalcite, Goethite, Gypsum, Jarosite, Kaolinite, Marcasite, Montmorillonite, Pyrite, Quartz, Sericite

Geology

Host rockAndesite

Associated rockAndesite

StructureRoberts Mountains Thrust, A System Of Parallel Normal Faults Strikes N10w And Controls Mineralization. Displacements Are Less Than A Few Hundred Feet.

AlterationSee Comments

Economic & production

Development statusProducer

Production years1910; 1914-1916; 1931-1932; 1936; 1984-1991

First production1910

Discovery year1908

Identification

Deposit ID10107309

MRDS IDW016362

Alternate names1554 Aandb, 1557, 1558, North Buckhorn, Junard, Glory Hole, NBMG Sample Locations 1512 Aandb, 1513, 514, 1515, 1516, 1551, 1552, 1553

RegionNA

Data scoreA

Coordinates40.18852, -116.48981

References

ROBERTS, R. J., RADTKE, A. S., COATS, R. R., 1971, GOLD-BEARING DEPOSITS IN NORTH-CENTRAL NEVADA AND SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 66, P. 14-33.ROBERTS, R. J., MONTGOMERY, K. M., LEHNER, R. E., 1967, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 64, P. 68-69.WELLS, J. D., STOSIER, L. R., ELLIOTT, J. E., 1969, GEOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE CORTEZ GOLD DEPOSIT, NEVADA, ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 64, P. 526-537.PLAHUTA, J.T., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE BUCKHORN MINE, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, IN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEVADA SPECIAL PUBLICATION #3.MONROE, S.C., ET AL, 1988, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION AT THE BUCKHORN MINE, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, IN BULK MINEABLE PRECIOUS METAL DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES, SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS, THE GEOLOGICAL SOCEITY OF NEVADA, RENO, P. 273-291.VANDERBURG, W.O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, USBM INF. CIRC. 7022.NBMG, 1994, MI-1993NEVADA DEPT. OF MINERALS,1994THE MINING RECORD,V.104, NO.41VANDERBURG, W.O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, USBM INF. CIRC. 7022 NBMG MI-1993PLAHUTA, J.T., 1985, GEOLOGY OF THE BUCKHORN MINE, EUREKA COUNTY, NEVADA, IN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEVADA SPECIAL PUBLICATION #3. NBMG MI-1993