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Foster Mountain Independent, Busch, Lucky Boy

Past Producer in Mendocino county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10031344
MRDS ID M010044
Record type Site
Current site name Foster Mountain Independent, Busch, Lucky Boy
Related records 10163964

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.17831, 39.44069 (WGS84)
Relative position MINE ENTRANCE IS IN SE1/4 SW1/4 ON POTTER VALLEY TOPO MAP. NEAR SUMMIT OF FOSTER MT. 16.4 MI. E. OF WILLITS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mendocino(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Foster Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ukiah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ukiah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Eel(hydrologic unit)

Northern California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Mendocino

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 018N 012W 03,10 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Chert
    Rock unit name Franciscan Complex
    Rock description Franciscan Complex
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.17831, 39.44069
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 1.52M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ORE HOSTED IN FRANCISCAN COMPLEX--L. TO L. ; GEOL.DESC: ORE BODY IN CHERT BELT STRIKING AND DIPPING S. W., GENERALLY AT A HIGH ANGLE. CHERT IS CONTORTED, BROKEN AND BRECCIATED BY MANY FAULTS. FOOTWALL IS THIN BEDDED CHERT, AND THE HANGING WALL IS MASSIVE BROWN CHERT WITH THIN FILMS OF MANGANESE OXIDE ON FRACTURE SURFACES. SMALL AMOUNTS OF PYROLUSITE AND PSILOMELANE ARE PRESENT ALONG FISSURES AND FRACTURE SURFACES. HARD SILICEOUS OXIDE ORE IS CUT BY TINY QUARTZ VEINS. PARTLY OXIDIZED BROWN CARBONATE ORE IS ALSO PRESENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner L. P. Dodson, Jr.

Comments on the production information

  • ONE OF THE OPERATORS, GEORGE BUSCH, STATED THAT 4,500 TONS OF ORE AVERAGING MORE THAN 45% MANGANESE AND LESS THAN 7% SILICA WERE SHIPPED FROM 1916 TO 1918; ABOUT 1,000 TONS WERE MINED IN 1925; IN 1944 ABOUT 300 TONS OF ORE AVERAGING 47.5% MANGANESE AND 23.8 PERCENT SILICA WERE RECOVERED. NO PRODUCTION RECORDED SINCE 1944.

Comments on the workings information

  • LARGE OPEN CUTS, DRIFT AND STOPE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 49, NO. 4, OCT. 1953, PP. 363, 386

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152, PP. 120-1-2

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

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