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Barrel Springs Placers

Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Mercury, Gold, Tin, Tungsten
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10100753
MRDS ID M242762
Record type Site
Current site name Barrel Springs Placers
Alternate or previous names Includes All Older Placers In Area-Tanke Claims, Double O Mine,, Constant Placers, Nevada Placer

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.70821, 40.81127 (WGS84)
Elevation 1372

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sulphur(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Quinn(hydrologic unit)

Black Rock Desert(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(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 Pershing

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 034N 029E 15,16,21,22,27,28,29 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR BARREL SPRINGS, UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF BEST OREBODY, BUT GRAVEL COVER THOUSANDS OF ACRES. . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary
Gold Secondary
Tin Critical Tertiary
Tungsten Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cassiterite Ore
Cinnabar Ore
Gold Ore
Huebnerite Ore

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) -118.70821, 40.81127
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No

Mining district

District name Rabbithole District; Rosebud District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lakeshore Minerals Refining Co. And Constant De Rebecque, Inc.
    Home office 530 California Ave, Reno, Nv
    First year 1964

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • TOTAL INFERRED RESERVES PLUS POSSIBLE RESERVES, PRELIMINARY TESTS SHOW MUCH HIGHER VALUES ($20-$60 AT $500/OZ GOLD) IN THE - 150 MESH SIZE

Comments on the workings information

  • PITS, TRENCHES

Comments on development

  • BENJAMIN J. CONSTANT, SR., PRESIDENT OF LAKESHORE AND HIS ASSOCIATES HELD 22000 ACRES OF PLACER GROUND NEAR BARRELL SPRINGS IN SUMMER OF 1964. QUADE REPORTED IN 1984 AN ACTIVE PLACER OPERATION AT BARREL SPRINGS. IN 1942 THE USBM INVESTIGATED THE PLACERS AS A POSSIBLE SOURCE OF TIN, BUT DETERMINED TIN CONTENT TO BE TOO LOW TO HAVE ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE. ALSO ONLY TRACE AMOUNTS OF SCHEELITE AND HUEBNERITE WERE PRESENT IN THE CONCENTRATE. PACIFIC EXPLORATION DID A FEASIBILITY STUDY ON THE GOLD PLACER IN 1980-81, COVERING A 5 SQ. MILE AREA (22,000 ACRES); THEY DUG 2 TEST PITS AND 250 BACK HOE TRENCHES. A TEST LOT OF 5300 CU YDS. IN 1980 PRODUCED 28 OZ. AU. TEST LOTS PROCESSED IN 1982 BY PER CU. YD., AVERAGING $1.11/CU. YD-BASED ON GOLD AT $350/02., PROPERTY WAS PURCHASED BY VICTOR INDUSTRIES IN 1981 WHO PLANNED TO MINE IT. IMMEDIATELY. OBTAINED BY SILVERLAKE RESOURCES IN 1983 IN A JOINT VENTURE WITH AGRICOLA MINERAL APPRAISALS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 292, ITEM 3, ITEM 5, CLIPPINGS. FILE 289, ITEMS 4,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H. AND PHOENIX, D.A., 1944 NBMG BULL 41, P. 177.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J. AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON MERCURY DEPOSITS OF NEVADA.

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK,2 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION NOTES.

  • Deposit

    PACIFIC EXPLORATION, 1981, BARREL SPRINGS PLACER MINING FEASIBILITY AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN: NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 289, ITEM 2.

  • Reserve-Resource

    NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 289, ITEMS 2,8

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REPORTEDLY "VERY LARGE" RESREVES. THE CURRENT (1980'S) PLACER PROPERTY INCLUDES MANY EARLIER, SMALLER PLACER OPERATIONS. PLACERS WERE WORKED IN THE RAVINES ON THE WEST SIDE OF ROSEBUD PEAK IN 1911. IN 1933 A 500 CU. YD. PLANT WAS OPERATING; AND IN 1934, MAURICE CONSTANT BEGAN ASSEMBLING CLAIMS, AND OVER THE YEARS UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1964, HE ACQUIRED ALL THE CLAIMS WHICH MAKE UP THE CURRENT PROPERTY. IT WAS WORKED 1934 WITH A MILL 1933-1939-PLACERS WERE WORKED CONTINOUSLY BOTH BY INDIVIDUALS AND COMPANIES 1939 -1940-3008 OZ AU WERE PRODUCED (PROBABLY ON EASTERN PORTION OF WEBANKE CLAIM GROUP) 1942-1960-THE U.S. DEPT. OF NAVY CLOSED THE ENTIRE AREA TO MINING AS IT WAS ADJACENT TO A BOMBING RANGE. 1949, 19538 1957- THE PROPERTY WAS REPORTED ON, BUT VERY LITTLE WORK DONE. 1961-PROPERTY WAS APPARENTLY IN INOPERATION AND HAD BEEN UPGRADED WITH MODERN EQUIPMENT 1961-1964-PROPERTY WAS OPERATED INTERMITTENTLY BY MAURICE CONSTANT 1964-1974-IDLE; 1974-PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY BENEFICIAL MININGO
Deposit CO. 1977-1978-PROPERTY-LEASED BY NEVADA NATIONAL MINING CO. AND MUCH WORK WAS DONE-THEN INTERNAL PROBLEMS CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF THE COMPANY. 1979-PACIFIC EXPLORATION BOUGHT ALL CLAIMS, STOCKS, AND RIGHTS FROM NEFICIAL, AND DID THE CURRENT FEASIBILITY STUDY, WHEN GOLD WAS AT $500/OZ. SINCE THE FALL OF GOLD TO PRICES IN THE 300/OZ RANGE, IT IS NOT KNOWN WHAT THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE PROPERTY IS. 3000 OZ AU-PRODUCED-1939. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT; 2 UNPUB REPT; 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1986 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 06-NOV-1992 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey CHECKED AND MODIFIED ROCK TYPE, ROCK UNIT AND AGES FIELDS.
Editor 01-SEP-1994 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

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