The Flower Placer Ground Locality is a mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,799 feet.
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Mine Info
Elevation: 7,799 Feet (2,377 Meters)
Commodity:
Lat, Long: 38.7, -116.90000
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Flower Placer Ground Locality MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Flower Placer Ground Locality
Commodity
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Vanadium
Tertiary: Mercury
Tertiary: Titanium, Metal
Location
State: Nevada
County: Nye
District: Barcelona District
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Owner Name: Flower, W. A. And Boak, C. C.
Home Office: Tonopah
Years: 1950 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
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: Toquima Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Colluvium
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Location): AREA NEAR JUNCTION OF ANTONE CREEK AND MEADOW CREEK.
Comment (Deposit): BLACK SANDS ARE CONCENTRATED ALONG SMALL WATER COURSES ADJACENT TO WEATHERED TUFFACEOUS ROCKS AND SANDSTONES
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS CONSIST OF A 50 FT, 25 DEG. INCLINED SHAFT WITH SEVERAL CROSSCUTS; 1,000 FT OF SURFACE CUTS; TWO SHORT ADITS; 1,500 FT OF TRENCHES.
Comment (Deposit): AN ANALYSIS OF BLACK SAND CONCENTRATES FURNISHED BY NEVADA BUR. MINES SHOWED THE FOLLOWING PERCENTAGES: FE2O3, 67.23, AL2O3 2.8, CAO 2.6, MGO 1.1, TIO2 12.3, V2O5 0.3, MN 0.5, CR2O5 0.4, KO 0.5, NA2O 3.7, AND ZN 0.2. GRAB SAMPLES ALONG STREAM BEDS AND COLLECTED BY NEVADA BUR. MINES CONTAINED LESS THAN 1% TIO2. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: PLACER-MODERN-FLUVIAL
References
Reference (Deposit): KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 25.
Reference (Deposit): KLEINHAMPL, F.J. AND ZIONY, J.I., GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN NYE CO. NEV. BUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, BULLETIN, IN PRESS.
Reference (Deposit): ERVINE, W.B., 1972, THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL ZONING OF THE SPANISH BELT MINING DISTRICT, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: STANFORD UNIV. PH.D. THESIS, P.131.
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.
