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Mission Gold Mines

Past Producer in Riverside county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10099486
MRDS ID TC38824
Record type Site
Current site name Mission Gold Mines
Alternate or previous names Huff-Lane
Related records 10285782

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.69139, 33.98948 (WGS84)
Relative position 42 MILES NORTH OF MECCA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Riverside(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

San Bernardino Wash(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 002S 012E 14 California

Comments on the location information

  • BETULIA IS THE NEAREST LOCALITY. Typo in Latitude of original was fixed.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.69139, 33.98948
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N-S
    Dip 80E
    Width 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Pinto Basin

Comments on the production information

  • 4 SHIPMENTS OF ORE AT $43 AU/TON.

Comments on the workings information

  • 600 FT DEEP SHAFT: AT 122 FT LEVEL 533 FT DRIFT N AND 191 FT SOUTH, AT 388 FT LEVEL A RAISE ON VEIN TO THE SURFACE 120 FT, 400 FT DRIFTS AT THE 400 FT LEVEL AND 600 FT LEVELS.

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ABANDONED AS OF 1980.

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. 139

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

Reporter information

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

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