1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Turner and Lloyd Prospect Turner & Lloyd and Skipper Claims

Occurrence in Calaveras county in California, United States with commodity Asbestos
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10028796
MRDS ID M005998
Record type Site
Current site name Turner and Lloyd Prospect Turner & Lloyd and Skipper Claims
Related records 10138602

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.64379, 38.02352 (WGS84)
Relative position 3/4 MI. SE OF OLD NASSAU COPPER MINE; 1/4 MI. FROM THE COPPEROPOLIS-ANGELS CAMP ROAD. ASBESTOS SYMBOL IN SE1/4 NW1/4 ON MAP GP-561

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Calaveras(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Salt Spring Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Andreas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Stanislaus(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Calaveras

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002N 012E 15 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Asbestos Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.64379, 38.02352
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: 80 ACRES ON WHICH GOOD PROSPECTS OF SHORT-FIBER CHRYSOTILE ASBESTOS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN A NUMBER OF PLACES. AN OLD ROAD CONNECTS THE PROSPECT WITH THE MAIN ROAD. CHRYSOTILE ASBESTOS FORMS STOCKWORKS OF SMALL CROSS-FIBER SEAMS AND VEINLETS. PERCENTAGE OF ASBESTOS PRESENT IN MOST PLACES EXTREMELY LOW; FIBERS LESS THAN 1/4" LONG. HOST ROCK IS LIGHT GREEN MASSIVE SERPENTINE. NUMEROUS SMALL OPEN PITS, OPEN CUTS, AN OPEN WEST-CROSSCUT ADIT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • ONLY ASSESSMENT WORK HAS BEEN DONE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. V. 32, NO. 3, P. 227; REPT. 21, P. 164

  • Deposit

    CALIF. COUNTY REPT. NO. 2, P. 20, 21, 128 AND PL. D

  • Deposit

    USGS MR-17; MAP GQ-222

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.