Smythe

Producer in Lake county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10030644
MRDS ID M008921
Record type Site
Current site name Smythe
Related records 10139274

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.66329, 38.72405 (WGS84)
Elevation 549
Relative position LOCATION UNCERTAIN BUT IS 3 MI. W OF MIDDLETON; VERY POSSIBLY IN SEC. 8.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lake(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Saint Helena(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Healdsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Rosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Lake

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 007W 08 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE, UTM, APPROX.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.66329, 38.72405

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Width 0.91M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN OR LENS OF GOOD GRADE MANGANESE ORE IS 2 1/2 TO 3 FT. WIDE, STRIKES NEARLY N - S, AND DIPS INTO HILL AT 45 DEGREES. COUNTRY ROCK IS SANDSTONE AND JASPER.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. B. 152, P. 97

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125 1943 P. 127

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-DEC-1977 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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