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Garbe and De Maria Mine

Past Producer in Placer 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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034882
MRDS ID M021867
Record type Site
Current site name Garbe and De Maria Mine
Alternate or previous names Dry Hill, Blue Jay

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.90131, 38.99572 (WGS84)
Elevation 756
Relative position N SIDE LADY CANYON, MIDDLE FORK, AMERICAN RIVER S SPRING GARDEN RAVINE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Greenwood(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Placerville(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

North Fork American(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 010E 06,07 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST. NW 1/4 7 , SW 1/4 6

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Serpentinite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.90131, 38.99572
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 15 E

Comments on the geologic information

  • AU OCCURS WITH OR WITHOUT MN, FE OXIDES, OR IN MUD-FILLED SEAMS DEVOID OF QUARTZ.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Michigan Bluff

Comments on the workings information

  • DRIFTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C. A., 1936 , GOLD MINES OF PLACER COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 32 , NO. 1 , P. 23 , 44 .

  • Deposit

    WARING, CLARENCE A., 1917 , PLACER COUNTY: REPORT 15 OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 338 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEAM, PARTLY OXIDIZED IN HIGHLY DECOMPOSED ROCK.
Deposit 214 ACRES ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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