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Western Magnesite Co. Property

Producer in Santa Clara county in California, United States with commodity Chromium
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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. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077453
MRDS ID W025098
Record type Site
Current site name Western Magnesite Co. Property
Related records 10116475

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.46269, 37.40631 (WGS84)
Elevation 927

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Clara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Boardman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Santa Clara

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
006S 005E 18 California

Comments on the location information

  • PROPERTY IS 35 MILES BY ROAD FROM LIVERMORE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Alteration

  • (Local) Dunite Is Partly Serpentinized

Analytical data

Result ORE CONTAINED 35% CR2O3

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite > Dunite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.46269, 37.40631
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSE

Comments on the geologic information

  • PERIDOTITE MASS CONTAINING DUNITE LENSES, TRENDS NW ACROSS THE SUMMIT OF RED MOUNTAIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner W. Balkan
    First year 1918

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEO. V. 50, NO.2, APR. 1954, P.402

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit APPROX. 20 TONS ORE MINED BUT PROD. UNKNOWN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1981 Oster, Karel L. (Albers, John P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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