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Marble Canyon

Producer in San Bernardino county in California, United States with commodities Marble, Dimension, Limestone, General
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10023295
MRDS ID I000127
Record type Site
Current site name Marble Canyon
Related records 10237592

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.00086, 34.41669 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position Estimated Location, Precision Is Very Poor.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Bernardino(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Fifteenmile Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Bernardino(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Bernardino(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Mojave(hydrologic unit)

Southern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Mojave-Salton Sea(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California San Bernardino

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Marble, Dimension Primary
Limestone, General Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Limestone Ore
Marble Ore

Analytical data

Result SOME IRON-STAINING AND MGO CONTENTS IN THE DEPOSIT, BUT DEPOSIT IS GENERALLY PURE AND WHITE. ORE IS DESCRIBED AS "HIGH CALCIUM" ORE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Dolomite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.00086, 34.41669
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • THE HOST SEDIMENTS ARE PART OF A THICK LATE PRECAMBRIAN AND PALEOZOIC SEQUENCE THAT UNCONFORMABLY OVERLIES CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Lucerne Valley Limestone Mining District

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Pfizer Inc.

Comments on the production information

  • PFIZER PRODUCES ABOUT 1 MILLION TPA FROM MARBLE CANYON.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • MARBLE CANYON CONTAINS 10-12 MILLION TONS OF UNEXTRACTED ORE (1990).

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: SHIPPING COSTS TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCATIONS RANGE $8-11 PER TON.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    O'DRISCOLL, MIKE, 1990, MINERALS IN THE US SOUTH-WEST- BREAKING ROCKS IN THE HOT SUN: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 272, P. 61-62

  • Reserve-Resource

    O'DRISCOLL, 1990.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-90 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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