Saundra Lee and Phase Ii Mines

Producer in Pershing county in Nevada, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10085004
MRDS ID W700434
Record type Site
Current site name Saundra Lee and Phase Ii Mines
Alternate or previous names Part of Majuba Placers

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.39654, 40.64433 (WGS84)
Elevation 1372
Relative position APPROXIMATELY 8 MILES NORTH OF POKER BROWN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Pershing(county)

Nevada(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Majuba Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eugene Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Lovelock(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 032N 032E 18 N Nevada

Comments on the location information

  • GOOD ROAD FROM EAST SIDE OF MAJUBA MOUNTAINS. PLACER OPERATIONS SCATTERED OVER SEVERAL SQUARE MILES IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS MOJUBA PLACERS. . INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

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) -118.39654, 40.64433

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Name MAJUBA PLACERS
    General form BLANKET

Comments on the geologic information

  • SOURCE OF GOLD IS THOUGHT TO BE GRANITES TO THE WEST.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Antelope District

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Benicke, Michael
    Home office 5444 Woods Drive, Sparks, Nv 89431
    First year 1984

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN PIT, MILL

Comments on development

  • MINE, MILL, GRAVITY CONCENTRATION OPERATION ACTIVE IN 1984.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    QUADE, JACK, 1984, FIELD EXAMINATION: NBMG UNPUBLISHED REPORT (TINGLEY) FILES, PHOTO 11.

  • Deposit

    JONES, R.B., AND PAPKE, K.G., 1984, ACTIVE MINES AND OIL FIELDS IN NEVADA - 1983: NBMG MAP 84 (OUT OF PRINT), SUPERSEDED BY DBM2.

  • Deposit

    STAFF, 1983, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1983: NDMI.

  • Deposit

    STAFF, 1988, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1987: NDMI.

  • Deposit

    JOHNSON, M.G., 1973, PLACER GOLD DEPOSITS OF NEVADA: USGS BULL. 1356.

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACER DEPOSITS ARE SCATTERED OVER SEVERAL SQUARE MILES.
Deposit THIS RECORD HAS BEEN MERGED WITH M242530, WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1985 La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.) Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Updater 01-AUG-1988 Paidakovich, Matthew E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1993 Phinisey, J. D. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1993 Humphries, S. E. (Marcus, S.) U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Li, Zhiping (Peters, S.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative Nevada resources

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