Deposit
Bonnie Claire
Bonnie Claire is a deposit with published resource estimates in Nevada, recorded in the USGS lithium deposits in the United States selected-sites dataset (2020 release).
Location: Nevada, United States
Commodities: lithium
Deposit model: evaporites · unclassified
Published resource estimates
| Material | Class | Amount | Grade | Contained | As of | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lithium (Li) | Inferred | — | 963 parts per million | — | Jan 1, 2018 | Lane and others (2018b), Page 60 — Lane, T., Harvey, J.T., and Samari, H., 2018, Mineral resource estimate technical report—Bonnie Claire lithium project, Nye County, Nevada, prepared for Iconic Minerals Ltd. [Effective date September 15, 2018]: Denver, Colorado, USA, Global Resource Engineering, Ltd., October 30, 96 p. [Also available at http://sedar.com] |
Exploration and site history
- Deposit Model: "Bonnie Claire appears to be a new type of deposit that has lithium compounds like lithium carbonate and lithium salts deposited within the fine grain clay, silt, and pore space. Although most of the sediment hosted lithium in the literature occurs in clays, it does not at Bonnie Claire...the lithium must be occurring as carbonate or a chloride with no association to clay minerals." (Lane and others (2018b))
- Evaluation — NI 43-101 compliant report, 2018 (Lane and others (2018b))
- Exploration — Exploration activities reported which included drilling, geologic mapping, surface sampling, and geophysical surveying, 2015–2018 (Lane and others (2018b))
Sources
- U.S. Geological Survey · published Jun 1, 2020 · retrieved Aug 18, 2026 · archive