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Salisbury Wash Ilmenite Claims

Occurrence in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Titanium, Metal, Iron
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10068503
MRDS ID W001575
Record type Site
Current site name Salisbury Wash Ilmenite Claims
Related records 10246631

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.01758, 38.19994 (WGS84)
Relative position IN SALISBURY WASH, BETWEEN MUD SPRINGS AND STATE HIGHWAY 6.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thunder Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Ralston-Stone Cabin Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Nevada Desert Basins(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 Nye

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N 046E Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEARLY 200 CLAIMS HAVE BEEN LOCATED IN THE AREA.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium, Metal Critical Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Biotite Gangue
Hornblende Gangue
Zircon Gangue
Ilmenite Unknown
Magnetite Unknown

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.01758, 38.19994
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Economic information

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 Salisbury Wells District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Lorena Peterson, M. F. Peterson, T. V. Bermen

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BEAL, L. H., 1963, INVESTIGATION OF TITANIUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES REPT. 3, 42 P

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SPECTROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF PLACER MATERIALS SHOWED FROM SEVERAL UP TO NEARLY 10% TIO2 SEVERAL SAMPLES FROM SALISBURY WASH CONTAINED A MAXIMUM OF 9% TIO2 BUT SAMPLES AVERAGED LESS THAN 1% TIO2. ONLY A FEW TONS OF CONCENTRATED TITANIFEROUS GRAVELS ARE PRESENT IN THE AREA. THERE ARE NEARLY TWO HUNDRED TITANIUM CLAIMS IN THE AREA. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1972 Cooper, Margaret U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-AUG-1980 Wong, George (Roberts, Ralph) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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