The Gridley Lake Ilmenite Placer is a titanium, metal and iron mine located in Humboldt county, Nevada.
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Gridley Lake Ilmenite Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Gridley Lake Ilmenite Placer
Commodity
Primary: Titanium, Metal
Primary: Iron
Location
State: Nevada
County: Humboldt
District: Pine Forest Range
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: PLACER
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Alluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Name: Alluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Magnetite
Unknown: Ilmenite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): PLACER
Comment (Geology): TITANIFEROUS MAGNETITE AND MAGNETITE ARE DERIVED FROM THE VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE AREA AND ARE CONCENTRATED IN BLACKSANDS ALONG SMALL GULLIES AND RILLETS, OVER AN AREA OF SEVERAL SQUARE MILES
Comment (Deposit): TITANIFEROUS MAGNETITE AND MAGNETITE PROBABLY ARE DERIVED FROM THE VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE AREA AND ARE CONCENTRATED IN BLACK SANDS ALONG SMALL GULLIES AND RILLETS. CONCENTRATIONS OF TITANIFEROUS SANDS AND GRAVELS OCCUR OVER AN AREA OF SEVERAL SQUARE MILES. SAMPLES OF TITANIFEROUS SANDS VARY WIDELY IN TIO2 CONTENT. ONE SAMPLE FROM THE OWNER CONTAINED 9.4 % TIO2 WHILE SEVERAL GRAB SAMPLES FROM NBMG. MINES ALONG STREAM BEDS ASSAYED LESS THAN 3 % TIO2. THE ALLUVIUM IN GULCHES AND ALLUVIAL FANS IS NOT LIKELY TO CONTAIN MORE THAN 1 % TIO2. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): BEAL, L.H., 1963, INVESTIGATION OF TITANIUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA: NBMG, REPORT 3, 42 PP.
Reference (Deposit): CRIB FILE
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.
