Hidden Valley is rich with ancient macro and micro volcanic mineral nutrients ideal for soil remineralization. The market for remineralization projects continues to grow with two global leaders; U.S. Rare Earth Minerals producing Excelerite, http://us-rem.com/ and AZOMITE Mineral Products, Inc.
The demand for environmentally friendly solutions for all industries is strong, including the need for natural alternatives to chemical fertilizers. Our crops are artificially stimulated, and when over utilized, the excess chemical fertilizers evaporate into the ozone or leach into our streams, rivers and lakes. It’s also widely understood that soils throughout the globe are becoming nutrient deprived from repeated harvesting, leaching, gaseous losses, runoff and consistent crop production, leaving crops vulnerable to drought and disease. As we focus more on green technology as a whole, finding solutions for reducing chemical fertilizer dependency is critical to the long term sustainability of our planet.
Hidden Valley also has other possibilities……
Ryolite for construction material... Hidden Valley contains large quantities of rhyolite in semicrushed form that can be used in the construction industry for producing structural concrete, masonry and plaster applications.
Future Real Estate development; Las Vegas's future growth will be to the south along Interstate 15. Many major development projects have been planned to the south including the future Ivanpah Valley International Airport and high speed rail to Los Angeles.
Hidden Valley should be strongly considered for a master planned community because of its secluded natural beauty and
mountainous surroundings.
http://www.xpresswest.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Valley_Airport
Rare Earth Minerals…Preliminary chemical testing at Hidden Valley shows the existence of rare earth minerals and just 29 miles south of Hidden Valley is the largest rare earth mine in the country, Molycorp’s “Mountain Pass Mine”.
It’s reasonable to assume that substantial rare earth minerals could exist in Hidden Valley, however, further exploration needs to be performed. For more
information regarding Mountain Pass Mine, see the links below:
https://mpmaterials.com/what-we-do/
Chemical soil analyses, geological reports and current market analysis are available upon request.
The project site is located approximately 12 miles south of Las Vegas, east of Interstate 15. On the western flank of the northern portion of the McCullough Range forms the west side of the Eldorado Valley and to the east lies the project site which is located within the Hidden Valley and Jean dry lake beds.
Interstate 15 bounds the range and valleys to the west and the Spring Mountain Range lies immediately west of Interstate 15. Several alluvial basins ring the McCullough Range and the local mountains surrounding these basins and valleys consist of primarily Tertiary volcanic, plutonic, and older sedimentary rocks.
The McCullough Range is divided into three parts: (1) the southern McCullough Range, composed mainly of Precambrian basement rock, (2) the central McCullough Range, centered in the area about McCullough Pass, and (3) the northern McCullough Range, extending from McCullough Pass to Henderson, Nevada. The McCullough Range lies within the northern Colorado River extensional corridor, which is a
50-100-km-wide structural zone that formed sometime during the Miocene.
Geologic Results
Piedmont is a broad, generally low-relief area extending from the base of a mountain range toward the center of a valley. The valley axis may host an axial stream, river, or wash; or a lake or playa. The latter is the situation for piedmonts such as in Hidden Valley.
Piedmonts are composed mostly of alluvial sediment shed from adjacent highlands by stream and debris flows. The valley sediments may contain eroded bedrock as well as other types of near surface geologic materials which include: washes, inactive alluvial fan remnants, pediments, sand sheets & dunes, and lacustrine beach deposits.
Desert piedmonts contain a geologic record of geologic events including: tectonic activity, flooding, changes in climate (House, et al., 2010).
Desert piedmont deposits are composed of stratified sediments (gravel, sand, and mud) transported by flowing water or debris flows ( alluvial deposits), wind (aeolian deposits), by settling from standing water (playa deposits), and by physical weathering and mass wasting of steep bedrock cliffs and slopes ( colluvial deposits). Based on this geologic summary, Sites 1, 3 (5 QA/QC), and 6 were located on the northern, southern, and eastern fringe zones of the Hidden Valley playa, respectively. Soil samples collected from these sites consist of a mixture of playa, aeolian and alluvial deposits.
The sample collected at Site 4 consisted of alluvial material derived from a basaltic or mafic rock type, which was supported by the geochemical results. Site 2 consisted mostly of alluvial deposits with a strong aeolian component.
Aside from the surficial materials present in Hidden Valley, bedrock types observed in the study area include: rhyolite which is capped by basalt, limestone, and possibly some intermediate volcanic rocks such as dacite. There were no bedrock outcrops near any of the sites.
