Flower's Ilmenite Claims

The Flower's Ilmenite Claims is a titanium mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 8,399 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

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

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Site Name

Primary: Flower's Ilmenite Claims
Secondary: Flower:S Ilmenite Claims
Secondary: Flower Iron Prospect
Secondary: Flower Property
Secondary: Flower Iron
Secondary: Titanium Placer Group
Secondary: Magnetite Nos. 1-48

Commodity

Primary: Titanium
Tertiary: Iron

Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye

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

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Workings

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Ownership

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Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Placer
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1944
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

Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Deposit): MR. W.A. FLOWER LOCATED THE MAGNETITE NOS. 1-48 CLAIMS IN 1944. THE BLACK SAN DEPOSIT CONTAINS ABOUT 12% TITANIUM, IN THE MINERAL ILMENITE, WHAICH IS A COMMON CONSTITUENT. THIS AREA IS INCLUDED IN THE MJ NOS. 1-299 CLAIM GROUP, ACCORDING TO 1993 BLM MASTER TITLE PLATS.

References

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 50, 1951, P. 25.

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULLETIN 61, 1963, P. 144, PLATE 1,

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES REPORT 3 BY L.H. BEAL, 1963, P. 20.

Reference (Deposit): RANGE, NEVADA, ADMINISTERED AS TOIYABE NATIONAL FOREST.

Reference (Deposit): FIGURE 41.

Reference (Deposit): AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT INTEREST IN THAT PART OF THE TOQUIMA

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.