The Placerites is a gold mine located in Pershing county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,701 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 4,701 Feet (1,433 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 40.74417, -118.74111
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Placerites MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Placerites
Secondary: Placeritas
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Mercury
Tertiary: Tin
Location
State: Nevada
County: Pershing
District: Placerites District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Princeton Mining Associates And/Or Worth, Inc.
Home Office: San Diego, Ca.
Years: 1984 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Form: BLANKET
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Alluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: LESS THAN 0.01 % SN WAS FOUND IN 18 SAMPLES
Materials
Ore: Cinnabar
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: BEDROCK IS SLATE AND SHALE
Comment (Development): DISTRICT WAS FIRST WORKED FOR GOLD IN 1870'S, AGAIN IN 1890'S AND THROUGH 1920'S BY VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS- WITH MARGINAL SUCCESS, DUE MAINLY TO A LACK OF WATER. THE FIR-ST LARGE-SCALE OPERATION WAS IN 1929 WHEN NEV-MONT PLACER CO A-CQUIRED 4040 ACRES OF PLACERS, BUILT A LARGE RESERVOIR AND INS-TALLED STORAGE TANKS AND BROUGHT IN A DRAGLINE SCRAPER TO MINE- THE GRAVEL. THE OPERATION PEAKED IN 1931 WITH A DAILY TREATME-NT OF 140 TPD OF GRAVEL. WATER SHORTAGE FORCED SUSPENSION OF W-ORK SHORTLY THEREAFTER. BY 1934, THE DISTRICT WAS BEING MINED -BY "SNIPERS" WHO WORKED THE GULCHES WITH DRY WASHERS. IN 1984 -1985, WORTH, INC. OF SAN DIEGO HAD A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EQUI-PMENT AND SOME PEOPLE ON THE SITE, BUT MINING WAS DELAYED PEND-ING DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL WATER RESOURCES. THE PROPERTY WA-S LISTED AS AN ACTIVE GOLD MINING AND MILLING OPERATION FOR 19-84, EMPLOYING 3 PERSONS.
References
Reference (Deposit): HOLMES, 1965, MERCURY IN NEVADA: IN USBM IC 8252
Reference (Deposit): BAILEY AND PHOENIX, 1944, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS IN NEVADA: NBMG BULL. 41
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W. O., 1936, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: USBM IC 6902.
Reference (Deposit): JOHNSON, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA: NBMG BULL IN PRESS.
Reference (Deposit): QUADE, JACK, 3 SEP 84, NBMG FIELD EXAMINATION
Reference (Deposit): NBMG STAFF, 1985, NBMG OFR 85-3.
Reference (Deposit): STATE INSPECTOR OF MINES, 1985, DIRECTORY OF NEVADA MINE OPERATIONS ACTIVE DURING CALENDAR YEAR 1984.
Reference (Deposit): REEVES, T. V., 1931, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON NEV-MONT PROPERTY, PLACERITES; NBMG DISTRICT FILE 287, ITEM1.
Reference (Deposit): VRANG, C., 1932, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON PLACERITES DRY PLACER, NBMG DISTRICT FILE 287, ITEM 2.
Reference (Deposit): NBMG MINING DISTRICT FILE 287, ITEM 4.
Reference (Production): VANDERBURG
Nevada Gold
Nevada has a total of 368 distinct gold districts. Of the of those, just 36 are major producers with production and/or reserves of over 1,000,000 ounces, 49 have production and/or reserves of over 100,000 ounces, with the rest having less than 100,000 ounces. Read more: Gold Districts of Nevada.
