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Schoettgen Prospect

Past Producer in Tuolumne county in California, United States with commodities Gold, 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. 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 10033744
MRDS ID M020388
Record type Site
Current site name Schoettgen Prospect
Alternate or previous names Experimental Mine
Related records 10166286

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.38961, 38.06269 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 2 MI. N. - N. E. OF COLUMBIA, 6 MI. N. OF SONORA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tuolumne(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Columbia(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 Tuolumne

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 002N 014E 01 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Analytical data

Result PROBABLY LESS THAN 10 PERCENT MANGANESE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.38961, 38.06269
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.61M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SUPERFICIAL DEPOSIT OF MANGANESE OXIDE, MIXED WITH SOME IRON OXIDE AND CLAY, IN GRAY LIMESTONE WHICH IS PART OF A BELT BELONGING TO CALAVERAS SERIES. ORE ZONE IS 2 FT. THICK, AND IS OVERLAIN BY ABOUT 8 FT. OF REDDISH REGOLITHIC SOIL CONTAINING QUARTZ FRAGMENTS. ORE ZONE IS EXPOSED FOR 30 FT., AND SHOWS A ROUGH BANDING OR BEDDING ROUGHLY PARALLEL WITH SURFACE SLOPE, ABOUT 20 E.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 P. 345

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125 1943 PP. 67 , 207

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey

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