USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
Nevada · Nye County
Barrick Bullfrog Gold Mine
Unconfirmed Gold Mixed Underground / Surface
Key facts
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Nye
- Mining district
- Bullfrog District
- Development status
- Producer
- Mine type
- Mixed underground / surface
- Primary commodity
- Gold
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Also known as
- Bonanza Mountain, Bullfrog, Montgomery-Shoshone, North Extension, Phase IV, Phase V, Polaris, Southwest Extension
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Structure: Regional structures are normal faults trending N to NW, blocks tilted east, the E-W-trending Bullfrog fault with dip greater than 20 degrees north. Veins strike N-S, dip greater than 50 deg; E-W, dip 20 deg N. Alteration: oxidation, silicif…
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Every underlying record used to build the summary above, for research/verification use.
- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Surface-Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Producer): Surface-Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
Source records document both underground and surface mining.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Producer
Operators / organizations
- Barrick Gold Corp. · Historical operator · 2004
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcocite
- Galena
- Gold
View all 31 reported minerals
- Alunite
- Calcite
- Limonite
- Quartz
- Cerargyrite
- Chalcocite
- Galena
- Gold
- Limonite
- Pyrite
- Alunite
- Basalt
- Calcite
- Chalcocite
- Chlorargyrite
- commodity:Copper
- commodity:Gold
- commodity:Lead
- commodity:Silver
- Galena
- Limestone
- Limonite
- Mica schist
- Native Gold
- Pyrite
- Quartz
- Quartz-latite
- Quartzite
- Rhyolite
- Shale
- Tuff
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 432252
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (21)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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