Weaver Creek Placer

The Weaver Creek Placer is a gold mine located in White Pine county, Nevada at an elevation of 7,001 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Weaver Creek Placer

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: Nevada
County: White Pine
District: Osceola 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

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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: Producer
Deposit Type: Placer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1885
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Model Name: Placer Au-PGE

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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

Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: ABOUT 1880'S

Comment (Location): EAST OF THE DIVIDE, IN WEAVER CREEK ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :1972

Comment (Commodity): SMALL PARTICLES

Comment (Development): IN EARLY DAYS, A LARGE AREA AT THE UPPER END OF THE CREEK WAS WORKED BY CHINESE. IN 1932, AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO WORK THE GRAVELS ADJACENT TO THE CREEK BY SLUICING. GRAVEL WAS EXCAVATED AND TRANSPORTED TO THE SLUICE BY A SMALL DRAGLINE SCRAPER. OPERATIONS WERE HAMPERED BY LARGE BOULDERS AND WATER ON THE BEDROCK. OPERATIONS WERE FEW HERE BY 1935. PLACER GOLD WAS BEING PRODUCED IN 1981 ON WEAVER CREEK; A LARGE BACKHOE AND BULLDOZER WERE BEING USED TO FEED A TROMMEL-THEN SCREENS & RIFFLES

Comment (Workings): SURFACE BACKHOE & BULLDOZER WORK IN 1981; PITS, TRENCHES

Comment (Geology): ALLUVIUM DERIVED FROM QUARTZITE BEDROCK OF THE PROSPECT MOUNTAIN QUARTZITE CONTAINING SHEETED VEIN ZONES. ALLUVIUM UP TO 200 FT THICK

References

Reference (Deposit): KLUENDER, S.E., 1983, USBM, OPEN FILE REPORT MLA 56-83.

Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W.O., 1936, NBMG BULL 27, P. 167-173.

Reference (Deposit): WEEKS, F.B., 1908, USGS BULL 340, P. 117-133.

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.