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Williams Ranch Deposit

Past Producer in Kern county in California, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035237
MRDS ID M022515
Record type Site
Current site name Williams Ranch Deposit
Related records 10232085

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.4437, 35.40748 (WGS84)
Relative position S. SLOPE OF PIUTE MTS, AT EAST END OF WALKER BASIN

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kern(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Piute Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tehachapi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bakersfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Kern-Upper Tehachapi-Grapevine(hydrologic unit)

Tulare-Buena Vista Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Tulare-Buena Vista Lakes(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Kern

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 029S 033E 16 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION NOT CONFIRMED, 1958, UTM EST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.4437, 35.40748
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 9.14M
    Length 60.96M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the production information

  • MAY HAVE YIELDED SMALL AMOUNT OF TUNGSTEN CONCENTRATES, GRADE .5-1.5% WO3

Comments on the workings information

  • PROSPECT SHAFTS AND SHALLOW TRENCHES IN 1941

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TROXEL, B. W., AND MORTON, P. K., 1962, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CAL. DIV. MINES AND GEOLOGY, COUNTY REPORT 1, P. 326

  • Production

    TROXEL AND MORTON, 1962

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO OUTCROPS OF TACTITE WHICH STRIKE N TO N 30 W, ARE 20-30 FT. THICK AND 200 FT. LONG

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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