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Tule Canyon Placers

Past Producer in Esmeralda county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10047225
MRDS ID M242493
Record type Site
Current site name Tule Canyon Placers
Alternate or previous names Bat Claim, Los Angeles Rock and Gravel Co. Claims;

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.53397, 37.36217 (WGS84)
Relative position UPPER 4 MILES OF TULE CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Esmeralda(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tule Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Cactus-Sarcobatus Flats(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 Esmeralda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S;006S;006S 040E;040E;039E 03,04,05;31,32,33,34;36 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM IS TO ONE CENTRALLY LOCATED SHAFT IN TULE CANYON,AMONG MANY WHICH EXTEND FOR 4 MILES ALONG THE UPPER PART OF TULE CANYON ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary
Uranium Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Columbite Ore
Euxenite Ore
Fluorite Ore
Gold Ore
Monazite Ore
Rutile Ore
Scheelite Ore
Xenotime Ore
Zircon Ore

Analytical data

Result VALUES PER CUBIC YARD GIVEN IN 1954 WERE:AU,$0.12
Result W,$0.06
Result FLUORITE,$0.06
Result URANOTHORITE $0.03
Result MONAZITE AND XENOTIME $0.03
Result COLUMBITE AND EUXENITE, $0.015
Result ZIRCON AND RUTILE, $0.015
Result TOTAL=$0.33/CUBIC YARD.

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.53397, 37.36217
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Proximity To Granitic Source Area, For Radioactive Minerals.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1848

Mining district

District name Tule Canyon District

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFTS AND VARIOUS SURFACE OPERATIONS

Comments on development

  • A PROSPECTOR WAS SINKING A SHAFT TO BED ROCK IN THE CANYON BOTTOM IN 1964. PLACERS WERE WORKED BY MEXICANS PRIOR TO 1848,AND THEY WERE "REDISCOVERED" IN 1876, AND WORKED CONTINUOSLY IN 1900'S ON A SMALL SCALE. LOS ANGELES ROCK AND GRAVEL CO (1933-1936) ATTEMPTED A LARGER SCALE MINING EFFORT, WORKING A 2-MILE SEGMENT ALONG THE UPPER PART OF THE CANYON, AND E.E. LAYTON WORKED AN AREA 1 MILE IN EXTENT ABOUT 1.5 MILE BELOW THEIR OPERATION. SMALL OPERATORS HAVE CONTINUED MINING SINCE THEN.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GARSIDE, L.J.,1973, NBMG BULL 81,P.52

  • Deposit

    LOVERING,T.G.,1954, USGS BULL 1009-C, P.96.

  • Deposit

    BAKER,ARTHUR,III,1964,UNPUB.NOTES ON LIDA DISTRICT:NBMG FILE 95,ITEM2.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON,M.G.,1973,USGS BULL 1356, P.22-24

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG,W.O.,1936,NBMG BULL 30.

  • Deposit

    SMITH, P. AND BENTZ,J.,1983, FIELD EXAMINATION, 11 MAY 1983.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD IS CONCENTRATED ALONG BEDROCK AND WITHIN THE OVERLYING 6 FT OF GRAVELS ABOVE BEDROCK. VEIN MATERIAL IS BRECLIATED, COATED WITH DRUSYQUARTZ

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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