Earth Sciences Fmr North

The Earth Sciences Fmr North is a aluminum and potassium mine located in Lyon county, Nevada at an elevation of 6,299 feet.

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Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Earth Sciences Fmr North

Commodity

Primary: Aluminum
Primary: Potassium

Location

State: Nevada
County: Lyon
District: Sunny Jim

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

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Owner Name: Earth Sciences, Inc.
Home Office: Golden, Co.

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Occurrence
Deposit Type: Replacement
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1973
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: L

Physiography

Not available

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Alunitization

Rocks

Name: Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
Role: Associated
Age Type: Associated Rock
Age Young: Pliocene

Analytical Data

Analytical Data: SEVERAL SAMPLES CONTAINING 40 % OR MORE OF ALUNITE HAVE BEEN REPORTED

Materials

Ore: Alunite

Comments

Comment (Geology): EXTENSIVE HYPOGENE (?) ALT'N BUT DEGREE OF ALUNITIZATION MAY BE SLIGHT

Comment (Reserve-Resource): HIGHLY TENTATIVE RESOURCE EST BY R. B. HALL ALUNITE TENOR UNKNOWN BUT PROBABLY LOW

Comment (Location): LEASE AREA ON N SIDE LYON - MINERAL COUNTY LINE ASTRIDE DIRT ROAD, SOUTH AND EAST OF A SHARP BEND IN EAST WALKER RIVER CALLED THE ELBOW

Comment (Commodity): PROJECT 9350 - 01393 ALUNITE RESOURCES

Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESERVE DATA, IF ANY, ARE PROPRIETARY

Comment (Development): EXPLORATION BY EARTH SCIENCES MEAGER, LIMITED TO SURFICIAL SAMPLING ONLY

Comment (Workings): MEAGER SURFACE EXPLORATION

References

Reference (Analytical Data): SRC.REF: HALL, R. B., 1978 , USGS PROF. PAPER 1076-A, P. A13

Reference (Deposit): HALL, R. B., 1978 , WORLD NONBAUXITE ALUMINUM RESOURCES - ALUNITE: USGS PROF. PAPER 1076-A, P. A13 .

Reference (Deposit): MOORE, J. G., 1969 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LYON, DOUGLAS, AND ORMSBY COUNTIES, NEVADA: NEVADA BUREAU OF MINES BULL. 75 , 45 P. , 45 P.

Reference (Deposit): 1973 DIREXPL EARTH SCIENCES: LEASE

Reference (Deposit): 1974 RECON R. B. HALL: USGS PROF. PAPER 1076-A

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.