Red Fox Nos. 1-35

The Red Fox Nos. 1-35 is a nickel mine located in Nye county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,450 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Red Fox Nos. 1-35
Secondary: Red Fox Nickel Deposits
Secondary: Verde Claim Group
Secondary: Chip Claims

Commodity

Primary: Nickel
Tertiary: Silver
Tertiary: Copper
Tertiary: Cobalt
Tertiary: Chromium

Location

State: Nevada
County: Nye

Land Status

Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
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

Type: Located Claim

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Kohlmoos, William
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1976

Production

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Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Operation Type: Unknown
Mining Method: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1960
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

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Structure

Not available

Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Deposit): ROCKS EXPOSED ON THE RED FOX CLAIMS INCLUDE SHALES, SCHISTS, AND SERPENTINES WITH INCLUDED LENSES OF QUARTZITE AND BEDS OF LIMESTONE. IN THE HILLS IMMEDIATELY TO THE EAST THESE FORMATIONS HAVE BEEN INTRUDED BY GRANODIORITE. NICKEL MINERALIZATION, AS GARNIERITE, OCCURS IN AN IRON STAINED SILICEOUS RIB AND IN A BELT OF SERPENTINE ASSOCIATED WITH VARYING SMALL AMOUNTS OF COPPER, COBALT AND SILVER WITH TRACES OF GOLD. IN GENERAL, THE AREA IS COVERED BY VARYING THICKNESSES OF SURFACE OVERBURDEN DEVELOPMENT OPENINGS COMPRISE A FEW TEST PITS AND CUTS ALONG THE IRON-STAINED SILICEOUS OUTCROP AND REMOVAL OF SHORT SECTIONS OF OVERBURDEN IN THE SERPENTINE AREA. THREE CHIP SAMPLES WERE TAKEN FROM SHALLOW EXPOSURES. THE HIGHEST NICKEL ASSAY WAS 0.38 PERCENT, ACROSS 5 METERS OF SERPENTINE. THE OTHER TWO SAMPLES, FROM IRON-STAINED OUTCROPS, CONTAINED ONLY 0.11 AND 0.03 PERCENT NICKEL. THE THREE COPPER ASSAYS WERE 0.05, IN THE SERPENTINE, AND 0.07 AND 0.13 IN THE IRON-STAINED OUTCROPS. COBALT ASSAYED 0.02 IN THE SERPENTINE AND 0.01 IN BOTH OF THE IRON-STAINED OUTCROP SAMPLES. GOLD ASSAYED FROM TRACE TO A WHOPPING 0.005 OUNCES PER TON SILVER ASSAYED FROM TRACE TO 0.05. EXPLORATION OPENINGS ON THE PROPERTY ARE NOT EXTENSIVE ENOUGH TO PERMIT MAKING A RESERVE TONNAGE ESTIMATE. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE IRON-STAINED OUTCROPS ARE PART OF A RIB THAT EXTENDS THE FULL LENGTH OF THE CLAIMS. SHOULD THIS BE SO, A BLOCK 5,000 METERS LONG AND 3 METERS WIDE WOULD CONTAIN ABOUT 36,000 TONS PER METER OF DEPTH PROVIDING A FACTOR OF 4 CUBIC METERS PER TON IS USED. THE SERPENTINE AREA, ABOUT 250 METERS IN LENGTH, AVERAGES ABOUT 25 METERS IN WIDTH. A BLOCK THIS SIZE CONTAINS 15,000 TONS PER METER OF DEPTH, SHOULD A TONNAGE FACTOR OF 4 (CUBIC METERS PER TON) BE USED. THE RED FOX NICKEL DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF 35 UNPATENTED LODE CLAIMS LOCATED IN T7N, R43E SEC 7, AND ALSO IN T7N, R42E, SECS 12 AND 13. MANHATTAN MINING DISTRICT SEE VERDE CLAIM GROUP FILE FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND ASSAY RESULTS (0320232001). NICKEL DISCOVERED IN 1960 BY PETE JAGLES AND VIC SMITH, TONOPAH, NV - CALLED CLAIM RED FOX. RELOCATED AS CHIP CLAIMS AROUND 1975 BY BILL KOHLMOOS, RENO, NV AND RELOCATED IN 1981 AS VERDE CLAIM GROUP BY KOHLMOOS. STILL OWNS IN 1995. NOT EXAMINED IN DETAIL BY U.S. BUREAU OF MINES IN 1992 BECAUSE VERY LITTLE OF THE CLAIMS LIE ON USFS GROUND. SEE BETTY CLAIM GROUP FOR ASSAYS AND MORE INFORMATION. THESE ARE OVERLAPPING CLAIM GROUP.

References

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

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

Reference (Deposit): P. 18 & 19 (KLEINHAMPL AND ZIONY).

Reference (Deposit): 1960, 10 P.

Reference (Deposit): NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES & GEOLOGY BULLETIN 99B, 1984,

Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES PRELIMINARY REPORT BY W.T. BENSON,

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.