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Dixie Marsh

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodities Halite, Potassium
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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. 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 10045399
MRDS ID M233113
Record type Site
Current site name Dixie Marsh

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.96513, 39.83323 (WGS84)
Elevation 1034
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 40 MILES NORTH OF FRENCHMAN, Large Area Of Marsh, Encompassed By Many Utm Blocks. Utm Given Is To Center Of Large Area, I 2000m.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Humboldt Salt Marsh(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Edwards Creek Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Millett(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Dixie Valley(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023N 036E 01,19,20,29,30,31,32 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Halite Primary
Potassium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Halite Ore
Potash Ore

Analytical data

Result ANALYSIS GIVEN BY HAGUE & EMMONS, (1877) IS 96.49% NA C1,1.91% NAZSO4, 096% NA2C03, 0.52% # 20

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.96513, 39.83323
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET, CRUST
    Thickness 0.3M
    Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 0.3M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1861
Discoverer John & William Guthrie Of Winnemucca, Nev., And Assoc., (First To Develop The Deposits)
Year of first production 1861

Mining district

District name Dixie Valley District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE WORKINGS; 3 DRILL HOLES

Comments on development

  • A LARGE AMOUNT OF SALT WAS PRODUCED FROM THE MARSH BETWEEN 1861 & 1868, AND SHIPPED TO SILVER-ORE MILLS IN VIRGINIA CITY AND ELSEWHERE. THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN THEEARLIEST COMMERCIAL SOURCE OF SALT AIN NEVADA. THE RAILROAD VALLEY CO., SEARCHING FOR POTASH, DRILLED 3 HOLES IN THE MARSH IN 1912. IN 1917, FALLON GROUP FORMEDTHE NEVADA POTASH SYNDDICATE IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXTRACT POTASH FROM THE BRINES, BUT THE VENTURE PROVED UNSUCCESSFUL.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MILS, 1979, USBM

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 976), EVAPORITES AND BRINES IN NEVADA PLAYAS: N.B.M.G. BULL 87

  • Deposit

    LINCOLN, F.C., 1923, MINING DISTRICTS AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA: NEV. NEWSLETTER PUB. CO., RENO, NV.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1940, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN CHURCHILL CO., NV;U.S. B.M. I.C. 7093.

  • Production

    PAPKE, K.G., 1976

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NACL FORMS A THICKCRUST IN A CENTRAL AREA OF ABOUT 9 SQUARE MILES

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-81 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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