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Flower Placer Ground Locality

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron, Vanadium, Mercury
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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. 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 10096166
MRDS ID W001573
Record type Site
Current site name Flower Placer Ground Locality
Related records 10256420

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.90091, 38.69993 (WGS84)
Elevation 2377
Relative position 1.99 MILES EAST OF SHOSHONE MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Jefferson(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 010N 045E 3334,35,25,26,27 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • AREA NEAR JUNCTION OF ANTONE CREEK AND MEADOW CREEK.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary
Vanadium Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.90091, 38.69993
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 4.27M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Channels, Proximity Of Source Rock

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: PLACER-MODERN-FLUVIAL

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Barcelona District

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Flower, W. A. And Boak, C. C.
    Home office Tonopah
    First year 1950

Comments on the workings information

  • WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 50 FT, 25 DEG. INCLINED SHAFT WITH SEVERAL CROSSCUTS; 1,000 FT OF SURFACE CUTS; TWO SHORT ADITS; 1,500 FT OF TRENCHES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO. NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.

  • Deposit

    ERVINE, W.B., 1972, THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL ZONING OF THE SPANISH BELT MINING DISTRICT, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: STANFORD UNIV. PH.D. THESIS, P.131.

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 25.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BLACK SANDS ARE CONCENTRATED ALONG SMALL WATER COURSES ADJACENT TO WEATHERED TUFFACEOUS ROCKS AND SANDSTONES
Deposit AN ANALYSIS OF BLACK SAND CONCENTRATES FURNISHED BY NEVADA BUR. MINES SHOWED THE FOLLOWING PERCENTAGES: FE2O3, 67.23, AL2O3 2.8, CAO 2.6, MGO 1.1, TIO2 12.3, V2O5 0.3, MN 0.5, CR2O5 0.4, KO 0.5, NA2O 3.7, AND ZN 0.2. GRAB SAMPLES ALONG STREAM BEDS AND COLLECTED BY NEVADA BUR. MINES CONTAINED LESS THAN 1% TIO2. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUN-1982 Lapointe, D.D. U.S. Geological Survey

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

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