Wallace Ranch

Occurrence in Santa Clara county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077465
MRDS ID W025125
Record type Site
Current site name Wallace Ranch
Related records 10213431

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.78325, 37.42963 (WGS84)
Elevation 561
Relative position 6.5 MI. BY ROAD E. OF MILPITAS, LIES S.E. OF MATEOS RANCH PROSPECT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Clara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Calaveras Reservoir(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
Mount Diablo 006S 002E 08 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM APPROX

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE 50.8 PERCENT MANGANESE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.78325, 37.42963

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SMALL OUTCROP OF HIGH-GRADE MANGANESE ORE, PROMINENT CHERT OUTCROPS ARE MOSTLY FREE OF MANGANESE STAINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEO. V. 50, NO.2, APR. 1954, P.414.

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 P. 264

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative California resources

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