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

Palen Mountains Talc Deposit

Occurrence in Riverside county in California, United States with commodity Talc-Soapstone
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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10064459
MRDS ID TC38835
Record type Site
Current site name Palen Mountains Talc Deposit
Related records 10261430

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.12581, 33.75005 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 1000(meters)
Relative position 18 MILES NE OF DESERT CENTER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Riverside(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Palen Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eagle Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(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 Riverside

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 005S 018E 8 California

Comments on the location information

  • SW SLOPE OF PALEN MOUNTAINS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Talc-Soapstone Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Talc Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.12581, 33.75005
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike EW
    Dip 40S
    Length 914.4M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Contact

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN CUT 30 FEET LONG AND A CROSSCUT TUNNEL DRIVEN 30 FT S30W.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R.J., AND TUCKER, W.B., 1945, MINERAL RESOURCES OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY; CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 41, NO. 3, P. 182

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit OCCURS ALONG CONTACT OF LIME-SILICATE ROCKS AND SCHIST. SIO2, 60.7%; FE2O3 AND AL2O3, 1.95%; CAO, TRACE; MGO, 30.88%; H2O, 4.50%.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1993 Unkefer, Jason 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.