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Pollard Canyon Prospects

Past Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodities Manganese, Barium-Barite, Mercury
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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. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10042639
MRDS ID M060500
Record type Site
Current site name Pollard Canyon Prospects
Alternate or previous names Chubbs, Toylode, Mountain View Claims, Mg Claims, Porcupine and Black Prince Claims, NBMG Sample Site 2331, Phipps-Foster Group, H.A. Brown Group, Brady Group, Smith Group,, Schurz Group
Related records 10222194

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.51707, 40.51907 (WGS84)
Elevation 1798
Relative position 44 MILES SOUTH OF WINNEMUCCA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Panther Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Winnemucca(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Humboldt(hydrologic unit)

Humboldt(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 31N 40E 30,31 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • NEAR HEAD OF POLLARD CANYON. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary
Barium-Barite Critical Tertiary
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Braunite Ore
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result SAMPLE 2331 OF SELECT MN-RICH MATERIAL FROM THE DUMP OF THE ADIT CONTAINS 5 % FE, 0.2 % MG, 1 % CA, 0.007 % TI, +5000 PPM MN, 10 PPM B, +5000 PPM BA, 2 PPM BE, 20 PPM CO, 10 PPM CR, 30 PPM CU, 150 PPM LA, 500 PPM NI, 15 PPM PB, 10 PPM SC, 150 PPM SN, 1000 PPM SR, 500 PPM V, 20 PPM Y, AND 300 PPM ZN. ALSO +1000 PPM AS AND .01 PPM AU, BY AA ANALYSIS.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Argillite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.51707, 40.51907
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N20W-N25E
    Dip 60 NW, VARYING, 30 TO 90
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 60.96M
    Width 9.14M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault Zone, Inpart

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1950
Discoverer W.E. Simpson And Joe Mckenzie

Mining district

District name Tobin And Sonoma Range Mining Area

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Deans, L. G.
    Home office Salt Lake City, Ut
    First year 1984

Comments on the workings information

  • MINE WORKINGS CONSIST OF BLACKBIRD CLAIM, AN OPEN PIT OPERATED IN 1951 AND 1953; AND THE PORCUPINE AND BLACK PRINCE CLAIMS ON A STEEP, ROCKY RIDGE SEPARATING 2 TRIBUTARIES TO POLLARD CANYON. IN 1984, A 10-M LONG ADIT AND SEVERAL BULLDOZER ROADS.

Comments on development

  • SEVERAL CLAIMS STAKED AND EXPLORED FOR MERCURY IN THIS AREA BETWEEN 1956 AND 1961 BY W.E. SIMPSON, VIRGIL OLSON, JOE MCKENZIE, AND WALTER POLKINGHORNE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULLETIN 89.

  • Deposit

    TRENGROVE, 1959, RECONNAISSANCE OF NEVADA MANGANESE DEPOSITS; USBM REPORT INV. 5446.

  • Deposit

    USGS, MAP GQ-11.

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E.H., RYTUBA, J.J., AND JONES, R.B., 1984, UNPUBLISHED DATA ON HG DEPOSITS OF NEVADA. #5. GARSDIE, L.J., 12 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION AND SAMPLE ANALYSIS. #6. NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 270, ITEMS #4, #5, #7, #8, #9, AND #10.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MASSIVE BLACK MN OXIDES AND MIXED BLACK OXIDES AND FINE-GRAINED SILICA OCCUR IN A 0-2 M THICK BED IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN HAVALLAN SEQUENCE. THE UNIT IS OBVIOUSLY STRATABOUND AND OF SUBMARINE EXHALATIVE ORIGIN. BEDDING STRIKES N20E, 60 NW. THE MN-RICH BED LIES BETWEEN LT GRAY CHERT UNITS. WITHIN 1 M OF THE MN BED ON BOTH TOP AND BOTTOM, THE GRAY CHERT CONTAINS BANDS AND IRREGULAR AREAS OF RED CHERT (JASPER).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1973 Johnson, Maureen G. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-MAR-1987 La Pointe, D.D. U.S. Geological Survey

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