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POD deposit

Producer in Elko county in Nevada, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10310441
Record type Site
Current site name POD deposit
Alternate or previous names listed as part of RSM?s Pi?on project, Also referred to as part of the Railroad property, POD Zone, Record includes the nearby East Jasperoid orebody

Comments on the site identification

  • This record includes the POD deposit and the nearby East Jasperoid orebody a few hundred meters away. The POD deposit is controlled by Royal Standard Minerals and included in their Pi?on property descriptions , but is located about a mile south of the main Trout Creek/South Bullion deposit, which is described in a separate MRDS record.
    The Main and North Pod deposits are noted on the Royal Standard website but no location information is given for them.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.00979, 40.53336 (WGS84)
Relative position The Pod-East Jasperoid deposit area is located about 18 miles south of Carlin, Nevada.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Elko(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ravens Nest(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Battle Mountain(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(hydrologic accounting unit)

Black Rock Desert-Humboldt(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Elko

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031N 053E 33 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • The claims covering the Pod-East Jasperoid deposit area are located about 4 miles (7 kilometers) south of Newmont?s Rain gold mine and 5 miles (8 kilometers) southwest of Emigrant Springs gold mine.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • Ore Materials: gold

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Devonian Lower Plate host rocks are altered.

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 173
USGS model code 26a.1
Deposit model name Sediment-hosted Au
Mark3 model number 17

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Rock type qualifier calcareous
    Rock unit name Webb Formation
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Mississippian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Devils Gate Limestone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Devonian
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Middle Devonian
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Chainman Shale
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Mississippian
    Stratigraphic age (oldest) Early Mississippian
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Rock type qualifier stock
    Rock unit name Railroad Stock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.00979, 40.53336
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name Railroad District
District name Bullion District
District name SE Carlin Trend
District name Robinson Mountain District\n

Land status

Ownership category Private
Area name Elko BLM Administrative District \n

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Royal Standard Minerals, Inc.
    Year 2006

Comments on the workings information

  • small open pit,test pit

Comments on other economic factors

  • In 1996, reserves were reported as 200,000 ounces of gold. In 1997, the POD zone was reported to contain drill indicated reserves of 1.5 million tons of ore grading 0.085 opt Au, or 127,500 ounces of gold, and the East Jasperoid orebody contained an additional 40,000 contained ounces for a total of 167,500 contained ounces of gold.

Comments on development

  • In 1997, the POD property was 50% owned by Exploration Brex Inc., and 50% owned by Exploration Mirandor Inc. who were conducting geologic mapping and sampling and planning a drill program. In 2004, Royal Standard Minerals owned the POD property as part of their Pi?on/Railroad Project, and was in an advanced exploration phase, having completed favorable leach tests on ore material from the POD deposit. In 2006, Royal Standard?s exploration was focused on developing the Main and North Pod near-surface zones in the South Bullion resource area, which includes a large, gold-silver bearing system with measured, indicated and inferred resources of 30.6 million tons grading 0.026 opt (0.01 opt cut-off). RSM sees for a deeper-lying feeder system beneath this low-grade surface mineralization. Their plans include pursuing a mining permit on this property in 2007 for an open pit heap leach operation.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit The Pod-East Jasperoid deposits on the northern portion of RoyalStandard?s claim block, are near surface oxide gold orebodies hosted by altered lower plate Devonian rocks.
In 1998, the geological resource of the POD deposit was reported as 1.4 million tons grading 0.085 opt gold. It has been noted in the literature that the deposit may be pluton-related, and the property does encompass a stock, although genetic implications have not been substantiated.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-2004 LaPointe, D.D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Editor 01-SEP-2007 Schruben, Paul G. U.S. Geological Survey Converted from S&A FileMaker format to Oracle. Edit checks on rocks, units, and ages with Geolex search, and other fields.

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