Last Chance Claims

The Last Chance Claims is a titanium, metal mine located in Churchill county, Nevada at an elevation of 3,599 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Last Chance Claims

Commodity

Primary: Titanium, Metal
Tertiary: Mercury

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: Underground

Ownership

Owner Name: Clark Barton And Y. S. Baxter Of Fallon, Nev.
Years: 1963 -

Owner Name: E. I. Dupont De Nemours And Co., Inc. (1950'S).

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
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

Not available

Orebody

Form: TABULAR

Structure

Type: L
Description: Fault Zone

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

Name: Syenite
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: 10 SAMPLES ASSAYED UP TO 1.3% TIO2.
Analytical Data: 8 SAMPLES ASSAYED BETWEEN 0.6 AND 9.0% TIO2

Materials

Ore: Cinnabar
Unknown: Rutile
Unknown: Ilmenite

Comments

Comment (Deposit): DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF 14 LODE (AND ONE PLACER) CLAIMS OVER 160 ACRES. ANALYSIS OF 8 SAMPLES CHEMICALLY AND PETROGRAPHICALLY CONTAINING ILMENITE, LEUCOXENE, AND RUTILE TRACES VARIED FROM 0.6 TO 9.0% TIO2. A CHURN DRILL HOLE 150 FT. DEEP IN THE PLACER CLAIM CUT PLACER DEBRIS CONTAINING FROM 4.5 TO 30% ILMENITE. DURING A BRIEF RECONNAISSANCE INVESTIGATION OF THE PROPERTY, 10 SAMPLES WERE CUT. THREE APLITE SAMPLES WITH MINOR AMOUNTS OF RUTILE ASSAYED 0.4 TO 1.3% TIO2, THREE GABBRO AND ONE DIORITE SAMPLE, FROM A TRACE TO 0.9% TIO2, AND PLACER SAMPLES CUT NEAR THE SURFACE, 0.7 TO 1.2% TIO2. SOME PLACER SAMPLES ALSO CONTAINED SEVERAL PERCENT OF TITANIFEROUS MAGNETITE. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Comment (Location): REPORTED SECTIONS QUESTIONABLE ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :(1972)

Comment (Development): 14 LODE CLAIMS AND ONE PLACER CLAIM (160 ACRES TOTAL). PROPERTY WAS EXAMINED IN 1951 BY ENGINEERS OF THE E.I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS & CO., INC. A CHURN DRILL HOLE 150 FEET DEEP WAS DRILLED NEAR THE DISCOVERY MONUMENT ON THE PLACER CLAIM, CUTTING PLACER DEBRIS CONTAINING 4.5 TO 30% ILMENITE.

Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: IGNEOUS-ANORTHOSITE-NORITE AND PLACER-MODERN-FLUVIAL

Comment (Workings): WORKINGS INCLUDE 4 ADITS, 2 OF WHICH ARE 100 FT LONG, THE OTHERS 65 AND 45 FEET IN LENGTH.

References

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

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.