California · Mono County
Past Producer

Bodie Mine

Mono County, California, United States
GoldSilverMercury
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Commodities
PrimaryGold, Silver
TertiaryMercury
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit typeHydrothermal sheeted stockworks, veins, local disseminations
Model150: Epithermal vein, Comstock
Orebody formIrregular, tabular
Ore controlNormal faults and associated fractures, possibly related to doming, at the center of extrusive volcanic activity (small dacite plugs)
Materials
Ore mineralsGold, Silver, Electrum, Argentite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
GangueQuartz, Adularia, Calcite, Chlorite, Hematite, Illite
Geology
Host rockVolcanic Rock (Aphanitic) · Silver Hill Volcanic Series
Associated rockMetamorphic Rock,Granite,Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Tectonic settingBack-arc extensional cratonic basin
AlterationPropylitic\nArgillic\nPotassic\nSilicic
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Discovery year1859
Identification
Deposit ID10310698
Alternate namesBodie Project
RegionNA
Data scoreA
Coordinates38.21583, -119.00333
References
Bodie.com: Bodie ChronologyCalifornia State Parks, 2003, Guide to the Bodie Consolidated Mining Company records, Bodie State Historic Park, Bridgeport, California: California Department of Parks and Recreation Website.Chesterman, C. W., Chapman, R. H., and Gray, C. H., Jr., 1986, Geology and ore deposits of the Bodie mining district: California Division of Mines and Geology (aka California Geological Survey) Bulletin 206, 35 pages, 5 plates, 11 figures, 7 tables, 17 photographs.Clark, W. B., 1988, Bodie District, in Gold Districts of California, Sesquicentennial Edition, California Gold Discovery to Statehood: CGS (formerly CDMG) Bulletin 193, Page 147-148.Homestake Mining Company, 1988, Bodie Project, Mono County, California: Summary report: CGS Minefile Folder No. 322-6117.Huston, Ann, and Tilghman, B. N., 1997, Bodie, California, preserving a historic mining landscape: Bodie Park brochure, California Department of Parks and Recration, Resource Management Division, pgs. 41-45.Mosier, D. L., Singer, D. A., and Berger, B. R., 1986; Descriptive model of comstock epithermal veins, in Cox, D. P., and Singer, D. A., Mineral deposit models: U.S. Geological Survey Bull. 1693, pgs. 150-151.Portions of various unpublished reports, and information from various Internet websites, contained in CGS (formerly CDMG) Minefile Folder No. 322-6117 and in the CGS Sunshine Mines archives.Romberger, S. B., 1993, A model for bonanza gold deposits, in Sheahan, P. A. and Cherry, M. E., eds., 1993, Ore deposit models; Volume II: Geological Society of Canada, Geoscience Canada, Reprint Series 6, pgs. 81-82.Silberman, M. L., 1985, Geochronology of hydrothermal alteration and mineralization: Tertiary epithermal precious-metal deposits in the Great Basin, in Tooker, E. W., ed., Geologic characteristics of sediment- and volcanic-hosted disseminated gold deposits - search for an occurrence model: U.S. Geological Survey Bull. 1646, pgs. 55-70