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Placerites

Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Mercury, Tin
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040614
MRDS ID M055456
Record type Site
Current site name Placerites
Alternate or previous names Placeritas
Related records 10222508

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.7421, 40.74405 (WGS84)
Elevation 1433
Relative position 9 MI S OF SULPHUR NEAR RABBITHOLE (SITE)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Placerites(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management NV)

Bureau of Land Management NV BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 032N;033N;032N;033N 029E;030E;030E;029E 01;19,29,30,31;06;36 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Mercury Tertiary
Tin Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result LESS THAN 0.01 % SN WAS FOUND IN 18 SAMPLES

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.7421, 40.74405
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Placer

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: BEDROCK IS SLATE AND SHALE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years TO 1936

Mining district

District name Placerites District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Princeton Mining Associates And/Or Worth, Inc.
    Home office San Diego, Ca.
    First year 1984

Comments on development

  • DISTRICT WAS FIRST WORKED FOR GOLD IN 1870'S, AGAIN IN 1890'S AND THROUGH 1920'S BY VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS- WITH MARGINAL SUCCESS, DUE MAINLY TO A LACK OF WATER. THE FIR-ST LARGE-SCALE OPERATION WAS IN 1929 WHEN NEV-MONT PLACER CO A-CQUIRED 4040 ACRES OF PLACERS, BUILT A LARGE RESERVOIR AND INS-TALLED STORAGE TANKS AND BROUGHT IN A DRAGLINE SCRAPER TO MINE- THE GRAVEL. THE OPERATION PEAKED IN 1931 WITH A DAILY TREATME-NT OF 140 TPD OF GRAVEL. WATER SHORTAGE FORCED SUSPENSION OF W-ORK SHORTLY THEREAFTER. BY 1934, THE DISTRICT WAS BEING MINED -BY "SNIPERS" WHO WORKED THE GULCHES WITH DRY WASHERS. IN 1984 -1985, WORTH, INC. OF SAN DIEGO HAD A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EQUI-PMENT AND SOME PEOPLE ON THE SITE, BUT MINING WAS DELAYED PEND-ING DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL WATER RESOURCES. THE PROPERTY WA-S LISTED AS AN ACTIVE GOLD MINING AND MILLING OPERATION FOR 19-84, EMPLOYING 3 PERSONS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W. O., 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: USBM IC 6902.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 3 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION

  • Deposit

    NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.

  • Deposit

    STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, 1985, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1984.

  • Deposit

    REEVES, T. V., 1931, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON NEV-MONT PROPERTY, PLACERITES; NBMG DISTRICT FILE 287, ITEM1.

  • Deposit

    VRANG, C., 1932, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON PLACERITES DRY PLACER, NBMG DISTRICT FILE 287, ITEM 2.

  • Deposit

    NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 287, ITEM 4.

  • Production

    VANDERBURG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1975 Gassaway, Judith S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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