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Imco Properties

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Barium-Barite
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10067314
MRDS ID W000021
Record type Site
Current site name Imco Properties
Alternate or previous names East Northumberland Barite Depositall Minerals Inc Barite Mine And, Mill 1981
Related records 10295599

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.81667, 38.9 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 3 MILES UP FROM THE MOUTH OF EAST NORTHUMBERLAND CANYON.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Northumberland Pass(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Jefferson(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Diamond-Monitor Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012N 046E 05,06,07,08,,PROJECTED,FROM,THE,SE Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UNSURVEYED TOWNSHIP AND RANGE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Barium-Barite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • DARK GREY MASSIVE DENSE BARITE WITH VERY FINE-GRAINED SUGARY TEXTURE. BEDS ARE GENERALLY >50% MASSIVE BARITE WITH LESSER AMOUNTS OF SPHERULITIC BARITE ROSETTES.-CHEMICAL OR DRILLING MUD GRADE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Barite Ore

Analytical data

Result SAMPLES OF BARITE BEDS RANGED FROM 70.7 % TO 93.5 % BAS04.

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Bedded Deposits Are Cut By Faults.

Ore body information

  • General form MASSIVE BARITE, ROSETTE BARITE, CONGLOMERATIC BARITE
    Thickness 304.8M
    Length 1524M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Deposit Is In Thrust Plate Of The Pinecone Formation.

Comments on the geologic information

  • RADIOLARIA SERVE AS CORES FOR BARITE ROSETTES. ; GEOL.DESC: BLACK BEDDED BARITE IN ORDOVICIAN (?) ROCKS OF WESTERN FACIES, STRIKE LENGTH 2000 FT. 50 FT. AVERAGE THICKNESS IN 4 BEDS, THRUST SHEETS OF WESTERN FACIES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1967
Discoverer D.R. Shawe And F.G. Poole

Mining district

District name Northumberland District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner All Minerals, Inc., S. R. Mahoney, President
    Home office 5510 South 300 West, Murray, Utah 84107
    First year 1981
  • Type Owner
    Owner All Minerals Imco
    Home office Salt Lake City, Utah

Comments on the production information

  • REPORTED PRODUCTION OF 500 TONS PER DAY IN 1975 AND 1976.
  • Miller, M., 2013, Barite, in Industrial Minerals Review 2012: Mining Engineering, v. 65, no. 7, p. 41-42.

Comments on the workings information

  • IN 1981, OPEN PIT MINE, ORE CRUSHING FACILITY

Comments on development

  • LISTED AS ACTIVE OPEN PIT MINE AND GRAVITY CONCENTRATION MILL IN 1981, EMPLOYING 17 PERSONS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FOUR BARITE BEDS

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 1971-04-01 Brobst, D.A. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 1982-06-01 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 2013-07-17 Wilson, Anna B U.S. Geological Survey no longer producing

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