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Los Angeles Chemical Company Clay Property

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodities Bentonite, Fullers Earth
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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. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046583
MRDS ID M241768
Record type Site
Current site name Los Angeles Chemical Company Clay Property

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.42587, 36.44998 (WGS84)
Elevation 664
Relative position ABOUT 10 MILES BY ROAD N OF DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Franklin Well(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Death Valley Junction(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(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 017S;018S 049E;049E 36;01 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • UTM (INACCURATE) IS TO MINE SYMBOL ON TOPO IN PIT AREA WHICH COVERS A LARGE AREA; LAT-LONG VALUES FROM USGS GNIS DATABASE ARE FOR GIVEN DISTANCE FROM DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bentonite Primary
Fullers Earth Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • CLAYS USED TO DECOLORIZE AND FILTER OILS

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bentonite Ore
Chlorite Ore
Illite Ore
Montmorillonite Ore
Saponite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Deposit Formed By Alteration Of Tuffaceous Playa Lake Beds

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Lake Sediments
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pleistocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.42587, 36.44998
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Thickness 5.49M
    Length 30.48M
    Width 30.48M
    Depth to top 1.83M
    Depth to bottom 12.19M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Lake Bed

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1917
Year of first production 1918

Mining district

District name Ash Meadows District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Los Angeles Chemical Co.
    First year 1950

Comments on the workings information

  • PITS TO 8-12 FT DEEP

Comments on development

  • VARIOUS COMPANIES PRODUCED CLAY FAIRLY STEADILY FROM 1918 THROUGH 1952; MOST PRODUCTION BY THE COEN COMPANIES AND LATER BY THE LOS ANGELES CHEMICAL CO.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PAPKE, K.G., 1970, NBMG BULL 76, P. 32-34.

  • Deposit

    CORNWALL, H., 1972, NBMG BULL 77, P. 35.

  • Deposit

    COUCH & CARPENTER, 1943, NBMG BULL NO. 38, P. 117.

  • Deposit

    KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 13-16

  • Deposit

    ARCIENEGA, V.M., 1926, ENG. & MIN. JOUR., VOL. 121, P. 408.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BODIES OF CLAY WERE LENTICULAR

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1983 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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