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Little Valley Placers

Past Producer in Washoe 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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10043839
MRDS ID M231124
Record type Site
Current site name Little Valley Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.88156, 39.24296 (WGS84)
Elevation 1981

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Washoe(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Marlette Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Truckee(hydrologic unit)

Truckee(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Washoe

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 016N 019E 17,18,19,20 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.88156, 39.24296
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • TERTIARY RIVER CHANNEL, IN PLACES OVERLAIN BY RHYOLITE AND ANDESITE FLOWS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Little Valley District

Land status

Ownership category State

Comments on the workings information

  • LOCATED IN A TERTIARY CHANNEL WHICH CAN BE TRACED FROM A POINT NEAR INCLINE ON LAKE TAHOE TO A POINT EAST OF THE SOUTH SHORE OF WASHOE LAKE. GRAVELS ARE COMPOSED OF METAMORPHIC AND IGNEOUS ROCKS FROM THE SIERRAS, THE GRAVELS ARE CUT AND OFFSET BY NUMEROUS FAULTS, AND CONTAIN LARGE AMOUNTS OF WATER WHICH HAMPERED EARLY OPERATIONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERBERG, WO, PLACER MINING IN NEVADA, NBM&G BULL 27, 1936

  • Deposit

    BONHAM, HF, GEOL & MIN RESOURCES, WASHOE, STOREY COUNTIES, NEV, NBM&G BULL 70, 1969

  • Deposit

    REID, JA "THE GEOMORPHOGENY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA NE OF LAKE TAHOE, CALIF UNIV DEPT GEOL BULL, V 4, P 177-199, 1911

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1978 Tingley, J.V. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-NOV-1990 Skurski, M. (Marcus, Sue) U.S. Geological Survey

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