Nevada · Lander, Humboldt County
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Trenton Canyon Gold Mine

Lander, Humboldt County, Nevada, United States
Gold
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Commodities
PrimaryGold
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeDistal disseminated Ag-Au
Model{75: Distal disseminated Ag-Au}
Deposit sizeS
Materials
Ore mineralsGold
Geology
Host rockSedimentary Rock,Siltstone,Limestone,Sandstone,Chert · "Valmy Fm", "Havallah Unit"
Structure"The Roberts Mountain Thrust fault and the Golconda Thrust fault both affect rocks in the region of the mine", "The West Side Fault is a major N-S-trending range-front fault bounding the Battle Mountain block on the west side of the range, and is adjacent to the North Peak deposit. The Oyarbide Fault is a NE-trending fault that transects the range, with the Trenton Canyon deposit lying south of the fault and the North Peak and Valmy deposits lying north of the fault."
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Discovery year1991
Identification
Deposit ID10310473
Alternate namesNorth Peak deposit, Valmy deposit, Trenton Canyon deposit, Chevron-Duval-Santa Fe claims
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates40.6554, -117.2225
References
{Deposit:: Denver Mining Record, 4/17/96}{Deposit:: Denver Mining Record,9/4/96}{Deposit:: Northern Miner, 6/3/96}{Deposit:: Northern Miner,11/4/96}{Deposit:: Pay Dirt, 11/1/96}{Deposit:: Santa Fe Pacific Gold 1996 SEC Form 10K}{Deposit:: Geological Society of Nevada; 1996 fall field trip guidebook, geology and ore deposits of northwestern Nevada; Trenton Canyon Project, Long Tree Mine, Getchell Mine, Twin Creeks Mine, Florida Canyon Mine (DeLong, Richard, editor) ; GSN Special Publication No. 24.}{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.}{Deposit:: Doebrich, J.L., 1995, Geology and mineral deposits of the Antler Peak 7.5-minute quadrangle, Lander County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin 109, 44 p.}{Deposit:: Winnemucca BLM District, 1998, Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Trenton Canyon Project}{Deposit:: Driesner, Doug, and Coyner, Alan, 2008, Major Mines of Nevada 2007 - Mineral Industries in Nevada?s Economy: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology; The Nevada Division of Minerals, SPECIAL PUBLICATION P-19, p. 10 and 12. http://minerals.state.nv.us/forms/mining/MajorMinesOfNevada/mm2007.pdf}{Deposit:: Johnston, Ivan, and others, 1999 Fall Field Trip Guidebook; Geology and Gold Mineralization of the Buffalo Valley Area, Northwestern Battle Mountain Trend, Trenton Canyon Mine, North Peak Mine, Buffalo Valley Mine, Redline Gold Skarn Deposit, Copper Canyon Gold Skarn-A Review, Marigold Mine; Geological Society of Nevada Special Publication No. 31, 261 pp. October 16-17, 1999.}{Deposit:: ROBERTS, R.J., AND D.C. ARNOLD, (1965), ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ANTLER PEAK QUAD HUMBOLDT AND LANDER COUNTIES, NEV.; U.S.G.S. PROF PAPER 459-B.}{Deposit:: Felder, R.P., 1998, Geology, mineralization, and exploration history of the Trenton Canyon project, in Theodore, T.G., Geology of pluton-related gold mineralization at Battle Mountain, Nevada: Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona and U.S. Geological Survey Center for Mineral Resources, Monograph 2.}{Deposit:: Blake, D.W., Theodore, T.G., Batchelder, J.N., and Kretschmer, E.L., 1979, Structural relations of igneous rocks and mineralization in the Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, in Ridge, J.D., ed., Papers on mineral deposits of western North America: International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits Symposium, 5th, Snowbird-Alta, Utah, 1978, Proceedings: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Report 33, p. 87?99.}