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Unnamed Placer Deposit

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. Mineral occurrence model information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042476
MRDS ID M060281
Record type Site
Current site name Unnamed Placer Deposit
Related records 10295489

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.47876, 40.32739 (WGS84)
Elevation 1387
Relative position BETWEEN BLACK ROCK CYN AND TRINITY CYN, ST FLANK TRINITY RANGE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Arabia(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Lovelock(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 028N 031E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM LOCATION APPROX., TAKEN IN TRINITY CANYON

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

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) -118.47876, 40.32739
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET, CHANNELS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1939
Year of first production 1939

Mining district

District name Trinity District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the production information

  • INTERMITTENT PRODUCTION FROM 1939 TO 1965, BY HAND METHODS.

Comments on development

  • PLACER GOLD RECOVERED SPORADICALLY FROM 1939-1963, BY HAND-METHODS

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 SMALL AMOUNTS OF PLACER GOLD HAVE BEEN RECOVERED FROM UNLOCATED DEPOSITS THAT PROBABLY OCCUR IN TRINITY CANYON AND NEARBY GULCHES, WHICH DRAIN AREAS WHERE FREE GOLD IS KNOWN TO OCCUR IN LODES. PLACER GOLD RECOVERED INTERMITTENTLY BETWEEN 1939 AND 1963 USING SMALL-SCALE HAND METHODS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-MAR-1987 La Pointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

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