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Wheeler Area

Past Producer in Inyo 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. Materials information
  8. Alteration
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103802
MRDS ID M055523
Record type Site
Current site name Wheeler Area
Alternate or previous names Coso Mine
Related records 10285456

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.77008, 36.0222 (WGS84)
Elevation 1082
Relative position 10 MI E OF LITTLE LAKE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cactus Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Darwin Hills(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(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 Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 022S 039E 16;20 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Metacinnabar Ore
Chalcedony Gangue
Clay Gangue
Opal Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Sulfur Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Argillic, Silicification

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.77008, 36.0222
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Hot Springs And Fumaroles, Presently Active

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: RECENT BASALT AND QUAT. RHYOLITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1929
Production years 1935-1936, 1942-1943

Mining district

District name Coso

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: U.S. NAVAL ORDNANCE TEST STATION, INYORKERN, CALIFORNIA

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Production

    USBM DATA

Reporter information

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

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