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Rio Grande, Delta, and Valley View Placer

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042471
MRDS ID M060275
Record type Site
Current site name Rio Grande, Delta, and Valley View Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.40431, 40.62461 (WGS84)
Relative position EAST FLANK OF ANTELOPE RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Poker Brown(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(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 032E 20,30 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE MAJUBA HILL AREA; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = POKER BROWN (1971) 1:24000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

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) -118.40431, 40.62461
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET, CHANNELS

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD IS CLOSE TO THE SURFACE; THERE IS LITTLE OVERBURDEN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1938
Year of first production 1938

Mining district

District name Antelope District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the production information

  • 606 OZ. AU PRODUCED 1938-1941 FOR THE DISTRICT

Comments on development

  • MOST INTENSIVELY WORKED FROM 1938-1941

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL. 89

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1973, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF NEVADA; USGS BULL. 1356

  • Production

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE PLACERS IN THE DISTRICT WERE DISCOVERED IN 1938 AND MOST INTENSIVELY WORKED FROM 1938 TO 1941. SOURCE OF GOLD UNKNOWN ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 3 FIELD OBSERV
Deposit PLACER, NEAR SURFACE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-OCT-1980 Royse, Sue E. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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