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

Beehive

Occurrence in San Diego county in California, United States with commodity Copper
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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034315
MRDS ID M021072
Record type Site
Current site name Beehive
Alternate or previous names Copper King ?
Related records 10140609

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.46393, 33.50337 (WGS84)
Relative position ON WEST SLOPE OF SAN MATEO CANYON, SW OF THE JUNCTION OF NICKEL (QUAIL) AND SAN MATEO CANYONS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Diego(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Sitton Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Santa Ana(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Ana(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Aliso-San Onofre(hydrologic unit)

Laguna-San Diego Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Cleveland National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

San Mateo Canyon Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California San Diego

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 008S 006W 01 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore

Analytical data

Result 7 % CU, $4 AU/TON. TRACES OF AG

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.46393, 33.50337
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Length 45.72M
    Width 15.24M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Defiance

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 33.53M

Comments on the workings information

  • 10 FT. AND 100 FT. ADITS (LATTER NOW CAVED)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ENGLEL, R., GAY, T.E., JR., AND ROGERS, B.L., 1959 : MINERAL DEPOSITS OF LAKE ELSINORE QUAD., CA.: DIV. OF MINES BULL. 146 , P. 111

  • Deposit

    WEBER, F.H., JR., 1963 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA; COUNTY REPORT 3 , CALIF. DIV. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, P. 70

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BODIES OF SHEARED CHLORITIZED GRANITE CONTAINING ORE MINERALS. BODIES ELONGATED N - NW PARALLEL TO SHEAR ZONES OF COUNTY ROCKS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) 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.