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In February 2022, the BLM announced that they were accepting pre-scoping comments for the Mountain View Exploration Project, located north east of [[Squaw Reservoir]] along [[Highway 34]].<ref>"[https://eplanning.blm.gov/public_projects/2017396/200510614/20054147/250060330/Mountain%20View%20Expl%20DIP%20Letter.pdf Mountain View Exploration Project]," February 7, 2022, BLM.</ref>
In February 2022, the BLM announced that they were accepting pre-scoping comments for the Mountain View Exploration Project, located north east of [[Squaw Reservoir]] along [[Highway 34]].<ref>"[https://eplanning.blm.gov/public_projects/2017396/200510614/20054147/250060330/Mountain%20View%20Expl%20DIP%20Letter.pdf Mountain View Exploration Project]," February 7, 2022, BLM.</ref>
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The Mountain View mine is described in 1985 as being in the [[Deephole Mining District]].<ref."[https://www.google.com/books/edition/OF1985_03_A_mineral_inventory_of_the_Par/ZKIx9NjbSZ8C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mountain+view+mine+gerlach&pg=PA28&printsec=frontcover OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach Resource Areas, Winnemucca District, Nevada]," By H.F. Bonham, Jr., L.J. Garside, R.B. Jones, K.G. Papke, J.Quade, and J.V. Tingley, 1985.<.ref>
In 2015, Allied Nevada, the company that operated [[Hycroft Mine]] at the time reported that Vista acquired the property from Newmont Capital.<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/20150928183114/http://www.alliednevada.com/properties/mountain-view/ Mountain View]," Allied Nevada, retrieved September 28, 2015.</ref>


[[File:Mountain View Plan Land Status 24K.png|thumb|Mountain View Plan Land Status, 1:24k map. (BLM)]]
[[File:Mountain View Plan Land Status 24K.png|thumb|Mountain View Plan Land Status, 1:24k map. (BLM)]]

Revision as of 04:10, 9 February 2022

In February 2022, the BLM announced that they were accepting pre-scoping comments for the Mountain View Exploration Project, located north east of Squaw Reservoir along Highway 34.[1]

History

The Mountain View mine is described in 1985 as being in the Deephole Mining District.<ref."OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach Resource Areas, Winnemucca District, Nevada," By H.F. Bonham, Jr., L.J. Garside, R.B. Jones, K.G. Papke, J.Quade, and J.V. Tingley, 1985.<.ref>

In 2015, Allied Nevada, the company that operated Hycroft Mine at the time reported that Vista acquired the property from Newmont Capital.[2]

Mountain View Plan Land Status, 1:24k map. (BLM)
Mountain View Plan Land Status, 1:100k map. (BLM)

References

  1. "Mountain View Exploration Project," February 7, 2022, BLM.
  2. "Mountain View," Allied Nevada, retrieved September 28, 2015.