Nevada · White Pine County
Producer

Saga Mine

White Pine County, Nevada, United States
Gold
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Commodities
PrimaryGold
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typesediment-hosted gold
Model173: Sediment-hosted Au
Deposit sizeN
Materials
Ore mineralsGold
Geology
Host rockShale,Siltstone · Pilot Shale
Associated rockDiorite,Porphyry · Saga Stock
StructureThe Bald Mountain district is located in an area of thinned crust along the eastern side of the Late Proterozoic rift that split the North American craton. It is also in the west-central portion of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Antler foreland basin, and near the eastern edge of deformation related to the late Paleozoic Humboldt orogeny To the west of the Bald Mountain district, geologic interpretations are dominated by recognition of Paleozoic deformation, whereas to the east, interpretations emphasize Mesozoic contraction and plutonism and Tertiary extension., At Galaxy, the dominant structure controls are
Tectonic settingThe Bald Mountain district is located in an area of thinned crust along the eastern side of the Late Proterozoic rift that split the North American craton. It is also in the west-central portion of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Antler foreland basin, and near the eastern edge of deformation related to the late Paleozoic Humboldt orogeny.
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Identification
Deposit ID10310450
Alternate namesSaga No. 3 Pit, Saga No. 4 Pit, part of Mooney Basin Mine Area, Part of Horseshoe/Galaxy Mine, Saga No. 1 Pit, Saga No. 2 Pit
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates39.8961, -115.4925
References
NBMG MI-91 through MI-02NBMG Map 91, 2nd, 3rdDEIS, 1995FEIS, 1995Amer. Mines (1996), 1995Nevada Land Status, 1990Long, K.R., DeYoung, J.H., Jr., and Ludington, S.D., 1998, Database of significant deposits of gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc in the United States; Part A, Database description and analysis; part B, Digital database: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-206, 33 p., one 3.5 inch diskette.Nutt, C.J., Hofstra, A.H., Hart, K.S., and Mortensen, J.K., 2000, Structural setting and genesis of gold deposits in the Bald Mountain-Alligator Ridge area, east-central Nevada, in Cluer, J.K., Price, J.G., Struhsacker, E.M., Hardyman, R.F., and Morris, C.L., eds., Geology and Ore Deposits 2000: The Great Basin and Beyond: Geological Society of Nevada Symposium Proceedings, May 15-18, 2000, p. 513-537.2004 www.placerdome.com.Hitchborn and others, 1996, Geology and Gold Deposits of the Bald Mountain Mining District, White Pine County, Nevada, in Geology and Ore Deposits of the American Cordillera Symposium Proceedings, eds. A. Coyner and P. Fahey.The Geological Society of Nevada 1996 Spring Field trip, Geology and Gold Deposits of Eastern Nevada, GSN Special Publication No. 23.BLM, 2004, Bald Mountain Mine Exploration Program Programmatic Environmental Assessment NV040-04-023, Case File # N78825.Rockwell, Barnaby W. and Hofstra, Albert H., 2008, Identification of quartz and carbonate minerals across northern Nevada using ASTER thermal infrared emissivity data?Implications for geologic mapping and mineral resource investigations in well-studied and frontier areas; Geosphere; February 2008; v. 4; no. 1; p. 218-246, Plate 12. http://geosphere.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/4/1/218/DC1Nutt, C. J. and Hofstra, A. H., 2007, Bald Mountain Gold Mining District, Nevada: A Jurassic Reduced Intrusion-Related Gold System; Economic Geology, v. 102, pp. 1129?1155. http://econgeol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/reprint/102/6/1129.pdf