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Oehring Placer Claims

Past Producer in Nye county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  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 10046627
MRDS ID M241817
Record type Site
Current site name Oehring Placer Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.10425, 38.53965 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 5000(meters)
Relative position Plains Cover Approx. 2. Miles

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nye(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Manhattan(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ione Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Tonopah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Big Smoky Valley(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 08N;08N 43E;44E 23;24;19 Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 119
USGS model code 39a
Deposit model name Placer Au-PGE
Mark3 model number 54

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Pyroclastic Rock > Tuff
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.10425, 38.53965
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 37013.9M
    Width 152.4M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GOLD PARTICLES GRADUALLY DECREASE DOWN STREAM, WITH NUGGETS UP TO 1 OZ. REPORTEDLY FOUND IN UPPER HALF OF GULCH. MANY NUGGETS CONTAINED QUARTZ. GRAVEL COMPOSED OF GRANITES, SCHISTS, CHERT, QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Year of first production 1905

Mining district

District name Manhattan

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mrs. Maud H. Goehring,
    Home office Box 6, Tonapan, Nv.

Comments on the workings information

  • MOST OF THE WORKING CONSIST OF DREDGE TAILINGS, BUT OLDER WORKING CONSIST OF SHAFTS, ADITS AND TRENCHES.

Comments on development

  • AU WAS FIRST MINED FROM VEINS (1905) AND AS PLACER AU (1906)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NBMG, OPEN-FILE DATA, FILE #95, ITEM 11, P. 1-34

  • Production

    NBMG, OPEN-FILE DATA,

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DREDGING OPERATIONS WERE USED FROM 1938 TO 1946, AT WHICH TIME MOST OF PRODUCTION OCCURED. PRESENTLY "TRIDEX NEVADA INC" HAS ESTIMATED LESS THAN $7.00/YARD AS MINING EXPENSES. ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-83 Lyles, B.F. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology

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