Wood Gulch

Plant in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Arsenic, Barium-Barite, Gold, Silver
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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10221294
MAS/MILS ID 0320071080
Record type Site
Current site name Wood Gulch
Alternate or previous names Bill Fraction, El Oro Claims, Five O Clock Claims, Guide Claims, Mexico Claims, Pc Claims, Sadie Nos. 1 and 2, Wood Claims, Jky Claims, Wood Gulch Project, Red Claims

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Pit
Geographic coordinates: -115.96673, 41.6802 (WGS84)
Elevation 2280
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Badger Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Jarbidge Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Wells(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Owyhee(hydrologic unit)

Middle Snake-Boise(hydrologic accounting unit)

Middle Snake(hydrologic subregion)

Pacific Northwest(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 Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 044 N 053 E 23 W2 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Arsenic Critical Secondary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Pit (1) -115.96673, 41.6802

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Plant
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Mining method Open Pit
Plant type Leach
Milling method Hydrometallurgy Unspecified

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim
Type of mineral rights Private Lease

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Homestake Mining Co.
    Interest 100
    Home office Nevada
    Year 1989
    First year 1989

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, SPE PUB. #10, 1990, P15.

  • Deposit

    US BUREAU OF MINES MLA OPEN FILE REPORT, 17-92, 1992,

  • Deposit

    PLATE 1, #39.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 04-DEC-96 Buckingham, David A. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

External references

Authoritative Nevada resources

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