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White Plains Salt Deposit

Past Producer in Churchill county in Nevada, United States with commodity Halite
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10045410
MRDS ID M233128
Record type Site
Current site name White Plains Salt Deposit
Alternate or previous names White Plains Flat

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.80515, 39.87629 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 750. Utm Is To Center Of Section Exact Location Within Section Is Unknown

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Churchill(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

White Plains(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Carson Sink(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Reno(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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Nevada Churchill

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023N 028E 11 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • 1 1/2 MILES W. OF HUXLEY; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = DESERT PEAK (1951) 1:625000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Halite Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Halite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.80515, 39.87629
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET, INCRUSTATION, SALT SPRINGS
    Depth to top 0M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1870
Discoverer Walter Schmidt

Mining district

District name Lake District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Comments on development

  • ACQUIRED SHORTLY AFTER ITS DISCOVERY, BY DESERT CRYSTAL SALT CO. WHICH OPERATED FOR MANY YEARS. SALT WAS PRODUCED BY SOLAR EVAPORATION IN A SERIES OF VATS DUG IN THE SURFACE OF HUMBOLDT SINK. BRINE WAS PUMPED IN THE VATS FROM SALT SPRINGS IN THE VICINITY. BEGINNING IN 1911, THE INTERNATIONAL SALT CO., UNDER LEASE FROM DESERT CRYSTAL SALT CO., PRODUCED SMALL AMOUNTS OF SALT ANNUALLY FOR SEVERAL YEARS, UNTIL 1915. MOST OF THE SALT WAS USED IN REDUCTION OF SILVER ORES, BUT SOME WAS ALSO REFINED FOR DOMESTIC AND DAIRY PURPOSES.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1940, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA: U.S.B.M. I.C. 7093

  • Deposit

    MILS, 1979, U.S.B.M.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-81 La Pointe, D. D. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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

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