The Basin Placer is a gold mine located in Humboldt county, Nevada.
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Mine Info
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Basin Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Basin Placer
Secondary: Bason Claim
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: Nevada
County: Humboldt
District: Leonard Creek Placer
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
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: Alley, A. And Curry, L.
Years: 1937 -
Owner Name: Paul A. Tarpy And Assoc.
Years: 1937 -
Production
Not available
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: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Great Basin
Physiographic Detail: Basin And Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Model Name: Placer Au-PGE
Orebody
Form: BLANKET, CHANNELS
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Deposit): 40 ACRES, OWNED IN 1937 BY A. ALLEY AND L. CURRY AND UNDER LEASE TO PAUL A. TARPY & ASSOC. - WORKED ON A SMALL SCALE BY SLUICING & ROCKING. 33 SAMPLING SHAFTS DOT THE PROPERTY ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Comment (Location): NEAR UPPER END OF LEONARD CREEK
Comment (Production): UNKNOWN AMOUNT
Comment (Deposit): 40 ACRES, 3-30FT DEEP.
Comment (Workings): 33 SAMPLING SHAFTS
Comment (Geology): GRAVEL DEPTH RANGES FROM 2 TO 24 FT., AVERAGING 12 FT.
References
Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W.O., 1938, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEVADA: USBM INF. CIRC. 6995
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.
