Corral Canyon Titanium

The Corral Canyon Titanium is a gold mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 3,848 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Corral Canyon Titanium

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Titanium, Metal

Location

State: Nevada
County: Churchill
District: Table Mountain (Corral Canyon) District

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

Not available

Workings

Type: Surface/Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Glen And Lloyd Shaw Of Fallon, Nevada
Years: 1963 -

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1927
Year Last Production: 1935
Discovery Year: 1925
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

Physiography

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

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Type: R
Description: Range Front Fault

Type: L
Description: Faults Offset Ore Bodies.

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Severe; In Places Sphene Is Altered To Anatase By Reaction: Sphene+Co2 To Tio2 + Calcite + Quartz

Rocks

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Name: Diorite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock Unit
Age Young: Late Permian

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: LOCALLY, TITANIUM DIOXIDE CONTENT OF THE ALBITIC DIKES VARIES FROM LESS THAN 1% TO NEARLY 40% (AVERAGE OF ALL IS 0.75%)

Materials

Ore: Anatase
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Albite
Gangue: Calcite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Sericite

Comments

Comment (Commodity): WHERE ABUNDANT THE ANATASE (OCTAHEDRITE) FORMS SHARPLY OUTLINED LOZENGE-SHAPED MASSES UP TO 2 INCHES LONG, FORMED BY REPLACEMENT OF EARLIER SPHENE

Comment (Deposit): MINERALIZED AREA COVERS ABOUT HALF A SQUARE MILE. GOLD ASSOCIATED WITH PYRITE AND MINOR SPHALERITE, OCCURS IN ELONGATED LENTICULAR QUARTZ BODIES ALONG THE MARGINS OF DIKES.

Comment (Workings): SEVERAL SHORT ADITS AND DISCOVERY PITS

Comment (Geology): TITANIFEROUS DIKES ARE FINE-GRAINED, ALTERED, COMPOSED OF ALBITE, CALCITE, SERICITE, QUARTZ AND IRON OXIDES. ; GEOL.DESC: IGNEOUS-ANORTHOSITE-NORITE

Comment (Deposit): GOLD MINING WAS CARRIED ON ALONG EDGES OF DIKES IN LATE 1920'S AND EARLY 1930'S. SPORADIC PROSPECTING AND DEVELOPMENT WORK FOLLOWING THIS PERIOD REVEALED THE TITANIFEROUS DIKES OR SILLS. THE TIO2 CONTENT OF ALBITIC DIKES AND/OR OTHER BODIES VARIED FROM LESS THAN 1 TO MORE THAN 40%, WITH THE AVERAGE CONTENT OF TIO2 IN ALL ALBITIC ROCKS EQUALLING 0.75%. A FEW GRAB SAMPLES OF THE ALBITIC MASSES RANGED FROM 2.0 TO 3.5% TIO2. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Comment (Development): GOLD MINING FLOURISHED SPORADICALLY IN CORRAL CANYON IN THE LATE 1920'S AND EARLY 1930'S. FOLLOWING THIS PERIOD, SPORADIC PROSPECTING AND DEVELOPMENT EXPOSED MANY TITANIFEROUS DIKES OR SILLS WITH ANOMALOUS CONCENTRATIONS OF ANATASE

Comment (Production): GOLD SO FINE-GRAINED, IT CAN BE SEEN ONLY ON PANNING. AU/AG ABOUT 10:1. VANDERBURG REPORTS THAT A GROUP OF CLAIMS WORKED BY LESSEES IN 1938 AND OWNED BY TASKER L. ODDIE AND FRED J. LUETJENS WAS WORKED IN 1938, WITH 25 TONS OF ORE SHIPPED, AVERAGING $40/TON IN GOLD.

Comment (Location): 12 MILES BY ROAD NE OF DIXIE MEADOWS; 53 MILES BY DIRT ROAD NORTH OF JUNCTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY 50 AND THE DIXIE VALLEY ROAD NEAR FRENCHMAN STATION. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972); 1:62500 QUADRANGLE MAP IS A 1966 EDITION

Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1920'S

References

Reference (Deposit): HAND, DAVID, 1955, GEOLOGY OF THE CORRAL CANYON AREA, CHURCHILL CO., NEV.: UNPUB. M.S. THESIS, UNR.

Reference (Deposit): MILS, USBM, 1979

Reference (Deposit): PAGE, B.M., 1965, PRELIM. GEOL. MAP OF PART OF THE STILLWATER RANGE: N.B.M. MAP 28.

Reference (Deposit): WILLDEN, R. AND SPEED, R.C., 1974, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF CHURCHILL CO., NEV.; NBMG BULL 83.

Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON, H.G., 1939, NICKEL DEPOSITS IN COTTONWOOD CANYON, CHURCHILL CO., NEV.; NEV. UNIV. BULL. VOL. 33, NO. 3; GEOL & MIN. SER. 32.

Reference (Deposit): BEAL, L.H., 1963, INVESTIGATION OF TITANIUM OCCURRENCES IN NEVADA; NBMG REPORT 3.

Reference (Production): WILLDEN & SPEED (1974), P. 65

Reference (Deposit): VANDERBURG, W.O., 1940, RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN CHURCHILL CO., NEV; USBM I.C. 7093.

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.