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Blue Eagle

Past Producer in San Bernardino county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Zinc, Arsenic
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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 10035764
MRDS ID M023667
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Eagle
Alternate or previous names Florence, Enterprise?

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.23388, 34.59531 (WGS84)
Elevation 927
Relative position 2.8 MI. SW SUMMIT OF MERCURY MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Bernardino(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Old Woman Statue(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Amboy(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Needles(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Southern Mojave(hydrologic unit)

Southern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Mojave-Salton Sea(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California San Bernardino

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 006N 017E 19,20 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Secondary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYED $50/TON. CONC. PRODUCED SAID TO CARRY $200-$300/TON AU

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.23388, 34.59531
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N30W
    Dip 80E

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Damby

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND ORE SHIPPED TO BURTON BRS. AT ROSAMOND. ALSO TREATED AT MILL ON PROPERTY

Comments on the workings information

  • 160 FT. SHAFT, 50 FT. SHAFT, PIT AND OPEN CUT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, 1964, MINERALS FOR INDUSTRY, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, V.3, P.116

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, L.A. AND OTHERS, 1953, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: (TABULATED LIST,) CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 49, NOS. 1 & 2, P.26-27 PL.7

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W. B. AND SAMPSON, R. J., 1943, MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIF.; CALIFORNIA JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 39, NO. 4, P.443

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B. AND SAMPSON, R.J., 1940, CURRENT MINING ACTIVITY IN SOUTHERN CALIF. CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V.36, P. 58-59

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 3 PARALLEL VEINS ABOUT 200 FT. APART, 1-2 FT. THICK
Deposit ACTIVE 1935-39. 8 CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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