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Brownite Group

Past Producer in Mono county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10007190
MRDS ID C010423
Record type Site
Current site name Brownite Group
Alternate or previous names Brownie
Related records 10116070

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.11403, 38.3302 (WGS84)
Elevation 2536
Relative position 2.5 MI. SW DOME HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mono(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Dome Hill(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bridgeport(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

East Walker(hydrologic unit)

Walker(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central Lahontan(hydrologic subregion)

Great Basin(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Mono

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006N 026E 34 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC. NW 1/4 NW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result EST. ASSAYS $8 IN AU

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.11403, 38.3302
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.83M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Masonic

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUTS ON SEVERAL CLAIMS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BOALICH, E. S., 1922 , MONO COUNTY: 18TH REPORT OF THE CALIF. STATE MINERALOGIST, P. 416 .

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W. B., AND SAMPSON, R. J., 1940 , MINERAL RESOURCES OF MONO COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 36 , NO. 2 , PL. 1 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN
Deposit 3 CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 27-APR-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

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