Moon Group Area Prospects

Past Producer in Mono county in California, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc
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. Mineral rights holdings
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10213122
MAS/MILS ID 0060510426
Record type Site
Current site name Moon Group Area Prospects
Alternate or previous names Peter Cody Adit, Moon Claim Group, Paymaster No.3, Dark Horse Mine, Daurte Mine, Star No. 4, Tres Amigos, White Mountains Rare Ii Area

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -118.30594, 37.49274 (WGS84)
Elevation 1920
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mono(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Laws(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bishop(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Mono

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 005 S 033 E 25 N2 California

Comments on the location information

  • POINT OF REFERECNE IS ONE OF A GROUP OF SHAFTS IN SEC 25. MOON GROUP EXTENDS THROUGH SEC 12,13,14,24,25,T5S,R33E AND SEC 19 AND 30 T5S R34E

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Silver Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -118.30594, 37.49274

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 94-83, 1983, PLATE 1,

  • Deposit

    NO. 97, P. 10; TABLE 4, NO. 97, P. 49.

  • Deposit

    CALIF. DIV. MINES 12TH RPT. P. 178; 13TH RPT. P. 277,

  • Deposit

    (DARKHORSE).

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOL., V. 53, NOS 3-4, P. 564,

  • Deposit

    (MONTECITO).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-MAR-1991 Winters, Dick U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.