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Osceola Placer Project

Occurrence in White Pine 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. Mineral occurrence model 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. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10046972
MRDS ID M242204
Record type Site
Current site name Osceola Placer Project
Alternate or previous names Dry Gulch Placers, Osceola Gravel Mining Co. Pre-1880, Osceola Placer Mining Co. 1880's, Grub Gulch

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.38418, 39.06661 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

White Pine(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hogum(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ely(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Spring-Steptoe Valleys(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 White Pine

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014N;014N 068E;067E 07,18;12 Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • OVER 300 CLAIMS-IN DRY GULCH, GRUB GULCH AND JACKS GULCH. UTM IS TO NEAR CENTER OF WORKINGS WHICH COVER A LARGE AREA. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Analytical data

Result OSCEOLA PLACER GOLD AVERAGED 850 FINE

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 Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.38418, 39.06661
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 0M
    Depth to bottom 60.96M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Convergence Of Several Dry Gulches

Comments on the geologic information

  • BEDROCK IS SHALE, LIMESTONE AND QUARTZITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1877
Discoverer John Versan

Mining district

District name Osceola

Land status

Ownership category Private

Comments on the workings information

  • DITCH AND FLUME LINE BRINGING WATER FROM BAKER AND LEHMAN CREEKS; ANOTHER FROM WILLIAMS, PINE, SHINGLE, RIDGE, AND WILLARD CREEKS; DRAGLINE SCRAPERS, OLD SHAFTS, WASHING PLANT

Comments on development

  • PLACERS WERE WORKED BY HAND UNTIL THE EARLY 1880'S WHEN THE MOST IMPORTANT CLAIMS WERE CONSOLIDATED AND THE OSCEOLA PLACER MINING CO. WAS ORGANIZED TO WORK THE GROUND BY HYDRAULICKING AND SLUICING. THEY BUILT A DITCH AND FLUME. HYDRAULICKING CONTINUED UNTIL ABOUT 1900. IN 1935 THE 417 ACRE HAMPTON PLACER IN DRY GULCH WAS SAMPLED AND WORKED BY WAGNER GOLD PLACER CO. USING 2 DRAGLINE SCRAPERS. AND A WASHING PLANT. 100 MEN WERE EMPLOYED IN 1932 PRIOR TO 1890, THE OSCEOLA PLACER MINING CO CONSTRUCTED 2 DITCHES ABOUT 34 MILES LONG AT A COST OF $200,000

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    COPELAND, R.W., 1975, OSCEOLA PLACER PROJECT: NBMG FILE 335, ITEM 11, 12

  • Deposit

    WEEKS, F.B., 1908, USGS BULL 340, P. 117-133

  • Deposit

    VANDERBURG, W.O., 1936, NBMG BULL 27, P. 167-173.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1973, USGS BULL 1356, P. 93-95

  • Deposit

    USBM, 1983, MILS DATA.

  • Deposit

    USGS, 1982, CRIB DATA.

  • Deposit

    TERRA DATA, 1980, A MINERAL INVENTORY OF THE SCHELL RESOURCE AREA, ELYDISTRICT, NEVADA: PREPARED FOR BLM.

  • Production

    NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 335, ITEM 11

  • Reserve-Resource

    NBMG DISTRICT FILE 335, ITEM 11

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 30 FT DEPTH OF GOLD-BEARING GRAVEL, AVERAGE. GOLD IS DISSEMINATED THROUGH THE GRAVELS, BUT THE PRINCIPAL PAY STREAK IS NEAR BEDROCK

Reporter information

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

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