Little Valley Placers

The Little Valley Placers is a gold mine located in Washoe county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,499 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: Little Valley Placers

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Nevada
County: Washoe
District: Little Valley District

Land Status

Land ownership: State
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: Past Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada

Mineral Deposit Model

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Orebody

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Structure

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Alterations

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Rocks

Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Workings): LOCATED IN A TERTIARY CHANNEL WHICH CAN BE TRACED FROM A POINT NEAR INCLINE ON LAKE TAHOE TO A POINT EAST OF THE SOUTH SHORE OF WASHOE LAKE. GRAVELS ARE COMPOSED OF METAMORPHIC AND IGNEOUS ROCKS FROM THE SIERRAS, THE GRAVELS ARE CUT AND OFFSET BY NUMEROUS FAULTS, AND CONTAIN LARGE AMOUNTS OF WATER WHICH HAMPERED EARLY OPERATIONS

Comment (Geology): TERTIARY RIVER CHANNEL, IN PLACES OVERLAIN BY RHYOLITE AND ANDESITE FLOWS.

References

Reference (Deposit): VANDERBERG, WO, PLACER MINING IN NEVADA, NBM&G BULL 27, 1936

Reference (Deposit): BONHAM, HF, GEOL & MIN RESOURCES, WASHOE, STOREY COUNTIES, NEV, NBM&G BULL 70, 1969

Reference (Deposit): REID, JA "THE GEOMORPHOGENY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA NE OF LAKE TAHOE, CALIF UNIV DEPT GEOL BULL, V 4, P 177-199, 1911

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.