Picacho Gold Mine

The Picacho Gold Mine is a gold mine located in Imperial county, California at an elevation of 699 feet.

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Site Name

Primary: Picacho Gold Mine
Secondary: Picacho Basin
Secondary: Apache
Secondary: Dulciana
Secondary: Eastern California
Secondary: Golden Casket
Secondary: Golden Rule
Secondary: Goshen
Secondary: Helen May
Secondary: Mars
Secondary: Mars Extension
Secondary: Mina Rica
Secondary: St. George
Secondary: Tierra Rica
Secondary: Venus
Secondary: Picach0
Secondary: Jayne
Secondary: California Gold King
Secondary: Picacho Mine

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: California
County: Imperial
District: Picacho

Land Status

Land ownership: Unknown
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

Type: Patented
Type: Located Claim

Workings

Type: Surface

Ownership

Owner Name: Chemgold, Inc.
Home Office: Arizona
Info Year: 1996

Owner Name: Glamis Gold Inc.
Percent: 100.0
Home Office: Nevada
Info Year: 1996

Production

Year: 1993
Description: Gold Production (Fy93) (07/1992-06/1993) 27578 T Oz/Yr
Year: 1995
Description: Gold Production (07/95-12/95) 14434 T Oz/Yr Gold
Year: 1996
Description: Gold Production 34621 Tr Oz/Yr
Year: 1991
Description: Gold Production (Fy91) (07/1990-06/1991) 17362 T Oz/Yr
Year: 1992
Description: Gold Production (Fy92) (07/1991-06/1992) 29429 T Oz/Yr
Year: 1994
Description: Gold Production (Fy94) (07/1993-06/1994) 23333 T Oz/Yr
Year: 1995
Description: Gold Production (Fy95) (07/1994-06/1995) 25270 T Oz/Yr Gold
Year: 1996
Description: Ore Mined @ 0.036 Opt 1631600 St Ore

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Plant
Plant Type: Leach
Operation Type: Surface
Mining Method: Open Pit
Milling Method: Heap Leach-Agglomerate-Carbon Column-Electrowin
Year First Production: 1980
Discovery Method: Ore-Mineral In Place
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Not available

Structure

Not available

Alterations

Not available

Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Deposit): PROPERTY MAY INCLUDE THE OLD CHRISTIE GOLD MINE (PICACHO PEAK GOLD PROJECT), MAS SEQ# 0060250463. PROPERTY CONSISTS OF 52 LODE MINING CLAIMS, OVER 640 ACRES

Comment (Economic Factors): PUBLISHED HEAP LEACH COSTS $125/TR.OZ. IN 1985 (1986)

Comment (Workings): TESTING OF EACH ROCK TYPE ON PROPERTY INDICATES NON ACID FORMING. SIMPLE NEUTRALIZATION IS USED. PROCESS WATER CIRCUIT IS CLOSED; ACTUAL CONSUMPTION IS 100,000 GPD.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): PROVEN + PROBABLE ORE RESERVES, 12/31/96; SR OF 0.20 TO 1.0

Comment (Production): GOLD PRODUCTION STARTED 5/1/80.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): IN 1992, DEMONSTRATED RESERVES WERE 7529594 MT ORE @ 1.3 G/MT. MEASURED ORE RESERVES, 6713132 MT @ 1.17 G-AU/MT.

References

Reference (Reserve-Resource): 1993 ANNUAL REPORT

Reference (Reserve-Resource): GLAMIS GOLD LTD., 07/95 - 12/95 FORM 10-K, PP. 12, 25.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): GLAMIS GOLD LTD., 1996 FORM 10-K PP. 13, 26.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): GLAMIS GOLD LTD., 1996 ANNUAL REPORT INSERT.

Reference (Deposit): CALIF. STATE MINING BUR. REPORT, V. 22, 1926, P. 260-261.

Reference (Deposit): CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOL., V. 38, 1942, P. 124.

Reference (Deposit): CALIF. DIV. MINES AND GEOL. COUNTY REPORT 7, 1977, P. 57-58.

Reference (Deposit): GLAMIS GOLD LTD. ANNUAL REPORT, 1984.

Reference (Production): GLAMIS GOLD LTD., 1996 FORM 10-K, PP. 11, 27.

Reference (Production): GLAMIS GOLD LTD., 1996 ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 1, 12.

Reference (Production): RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY 1996-97, P.164.

Reference (Reserve-Resource): GLAMIS GOLD LTD. ANNUAL REPORT, 1985.

Reference (Deposit): MINING JOURNAL, P. 487, DTD 12/27/85.

Reference (Deposit): GLOBAL MARKETS, VOL. 2, NO. 8, 12/06/85.

Reference (Deposit): LONDON MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 306, P. 387, 05/30/86.

Reference (Deposit): GEORGE CROSS NEWSLETTER, NO. 55, DTD 03/19/86.

Reference (Deposit): CALIF. DIV. MINES AND GEOL. SPECIAL PUBLICATION 103, 1990,

Reference (Deposit): P.

Reference (Deposit): ABOUT 20 MI NORTH OF YUMA CALIF.

Reference (Deposit): RANDOL MINING DIRECTORY, 1990,1991, 1993.

Reference (Deposit): GLAMIS GOLD INC. ANNUAL REPORT, 1991.

Reference (Deposit): U.S.BLM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE PROPOSED

Reference (Deposit): CHEMGOLD INC PICACHO MINE, DULCINA PIT PHASE 2, IMPERIAL

Reference (Deposit): CO. CALIF. JUNE 1991.

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD, V107 N34, 8-21-96, P.7.

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