The Leonard Creek Placers is a gold mine located in Humboldt county, Nevada at an elevation of 4,400 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 4,400 Feet (1,341 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 41.54083, -118.71444
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Leonard Creek Placers MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Leonard Creek Placers
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Humboldt
District: Leonard Creek District
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1932
Discovery Year: 1931
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral Not In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Form: BLANKET
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): 20 FT DEEP GRAVELS
Comment (Geology): VALUES IN GOLD DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT ALLUVIUM TO BEDROCK OF SOFT TUFA
Comment (Deposit): IN 1931, 1500 ACRES ABOVE THE MONTERO RANCH WAS ORGANIZED AS LEONARD CREEK PLACERS LTD. IN 1932, SEVERAL MINERS WERE WORKING PLACERS ON TEPEE AND SNOW CREEKS, TRIBUTARIES TO LEONARD CREEK ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Production): $5,000. WORTH OF GOLD PRODUCED PRIOR TO 1938
References
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W.O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY NEVADA: USBM INF. CIRC. 6995.
Reference (Deposit): 1940, GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF HOLDINGS OF SHARNIEL MINING COMPANY, UNPUBLISHED REPORT ON FILE AT NBMG.
Reference (Production): WILLDEN, R., 1964
Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R., 1964, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA; NBMG BULL.59.
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.
