Flower's Ilmenite Claims

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Iron, Titanium
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10125628
MRDS ID M055314
MAS/MILS ID 0320230105
Record type Site
Current site name Flower's Ilmenite Claims
Alternate or previous names Flower:S Ilmenite Claims, Flower Iron Prospect, Flower Property, Flower Iron, Titanium Placer Group, Magnetite Nos. 1-48
Related records 10040507, 10174191

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -116.89511, 38.69883 (WGS84)
Elevation 2560
Location accuracy 10(meters)

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 010 N 045 E 22 NE Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Tertiary
Titanium Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -116.89511, 38.69883

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1944

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES REPORT 3 BY L.H. BEAL, 1963, P. 20.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 61, 1963, P. 144, PLATE 1,

  • Deposit

    FIGURE 41.

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 50, 1951, P. 25.

  • Deposit

    AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

  • Deposit

    RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MR. W.A. FLOWER LOCATED THE MAGNETITE NOS. 1-48 CLAIMS IN 1944. THE BLACK SAN DEPOSIT CONTAINS ABOUT 12% TITANIUM, IN THE MINERAL ILMENITE, WHAICH IS A COMMON CONSTITUENT. THIS AREA IS INCLUDED IN THE MJ NOS. 1-299 CLAIM GROUP, ACCORDING TO 1993 BLM MASTER TITLE PLATS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-JAN-95 Schmauch, Steven W. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.