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China Lake

Occurrence in Kern county in California, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040709
MRDS ID M055568
Record type Site
Current site name China Lake
Related records 10139011

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.65201, 35.72109 (WGS84)
Elevation 640

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kern(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ridgecrest North(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ridgecrest(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trona(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Indian Wells-Searles Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

NAVY(Federal land areas administered by NAVY)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Kern

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 025S 040E California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TO WEST SHORE OF CHINA LAKE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.65201, 35.72109
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tehachapi

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G. W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN CALIFORNIA: IN USBM IC 8252

  • Production

    USBM UNPUB DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, J. S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.