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Weaver Creek Placer

Producer in White Pine 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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046957
MRDS ID M242188
Record type Site
Current site name Weaver Creek Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.32418, 39.08522 (WGS84)
Elevation 2134
Location accuracy 500(meters)
Relative position To Vicinity Of Workings +/- 300 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Windy Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Hamlin-Snake Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Great Salt Lake(hydrologic accounting unit)

Great Salt Lake(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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014N 068E 10,15 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • EAST OF THE DIVIDE, IN WEAVER CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL PARTICLES

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.32418, 39.08522
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ALLUVIUM DERIVED FROM QUARTZITE BEDROCK OF THE PROSPECT MOUNTAIN QUARTZITE CONTAINING SHEETED VEIN ZONES. ALLUVIUM UP TO 200 FT THICK

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1885

Mining district

District name Osceola District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the workings information

  • SURFACE BACKHOE & BULLDOZER WORK IN 1981; PITS, TRENCHES

Comments on development

  • IN EARLY DAYS, A LARGE AREA AT THE UPPER END OF THE CREEK WAS WORKED BY CHINESE. IN 1932, AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO WORK THE GRAVELS ADJACENT TO THE CREEK BY SLUICING. GRAVEL WAS EXCAVATED AND TRANSPORTED TO THE SLUICE BY A SMALL DRAGLINE SCRAPER. OPERATIONS WERE HAMPERED BY LARGE BOULDERS AND WATER ON THE BEDROCK. OPERATIONS WERE FEW HERE BY 1935. PLACER GOLD WAS BEING PRODUCED IN 1981 ON WEAVER CREEK; A LARGE BACKHOE AND BULLDOZER WERE BEING USED TO FEED A TROMMEL-THEN SCREENS & RIFFLES

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WEEKS, F.B., 1908, USGS BULL 340, P. 117-133.

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1936, NBMG BULL 27, P. 167-173.

  • Deposit

    KLUENDER, S.E., 1983, USBM, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 56-83.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: ABOUT 1880'S

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-83 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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