Little Giant mine, Battle Mountain Mining District, Lander County, Nevada, USAi

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Little Giant mine	Mine
Battle Mountain Mining District	Mining District
Lander County	County
Nevada	State
USA	Country

Sec 36 T32N R43E. Gold silver
Structure: Thrust Faults Nw-Trending Faults

Alteration: Strong Sericitic, Pyritic, Propylitic, Phyllic Alteration Of The Granite Porphyry, Increasing In Intesity Toward Veins.

Deposit: First prospected in 1867. Production to july 1,1869 was about $70,000 total. This was the first steady producer in the district, and the principal mine in 1870. Production continued here, on a small scale even through the late 1880's when most other district mines were shut down. Ore was treated in a mill 1/2 mile n. Of the workings, orig. Equipped with 5 stamps and later with 10 records of early production (1860's to 1905) is fragmentary, but it was estimated to be about $500,000. Worth ; info.src : 1 pub lit

Deposit type: Polymetallic veins

Development: This was the first steady producer in the district, and the principal mine in 1870. Production continued here even through the late 1880's when most other mines in the district shut down. Ore was treated in a mill 1/2 mile north of the workings, originally equipped with 5 stamps, and later with 10. Records of early production (1860's-1905) are fragmentary, but estimated to have been about $500,000 worth.

Geology: Little giant vein cuts both quartzite and porphyry. Ore in 1912 was mostly strongly oxidized pyrite is disseminated throughout country rock in places, cut by later pyrite veinlets cut by later veins of secondary silver sulphides

Rock formation(s): Harmony Formation


Ore(s): Fractures, Shears, Crushed Zones

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Link to USGS MRDS:	10044032

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