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Shining Dawn Mine

Plant in San Bernardino county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10237360
MAS/MILS ID 0060710208
Record type Site
Current site name Shining Dawn Mine

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -116.84307, 35.02531 (WGS84)
Elevation 853
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Bernardino(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Coyote Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Soda Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trona(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coyote-Cuddeback Lakes(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(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 San Bernardino

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 011 N 001 E 23 SWSWSE California

Comments on the location information

  • NOTE: LATITUDE-LONGITUDE COORDINATE GIVEN BY THE CALIF. DIV. MINES AND GEOL. (1981, P. 29.) IS IN ERROR. EXAMINATION RECORDS PROVIDED BY THE BUR. LAND MGMT. SHOW THIS MINE IN THE LOCATION GIVEN ON THIS RECORD.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Tertiary
Silver Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -116.84307, 35.02531
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1978
Plant type Leach

Land status

Ownership category BLM Administrative Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner America Progress Mining Co., Inc.
    Home office P. O. Box 1, Paradise Valley, Ca
    Year 1981

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    FIFE, D.L., 1980, EPITHERMAL LATE TERTIARY GOLD MINERALI-

  • Deposit

    ZATION AT THE SHINING DAWN MINE, LANE MOUNTAIN QUAD-

  • Deposit

    RANGLE, CALIFORNIA, IN GEOLOGY AND MINERAL WEALTH OF THE

  • Deposit

    CALIFORNIA DESERT, DIBBLEE VOLUME: SOUTH COAST

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, P. 330-335.

  • Deposit

    CALIF. DIV. MINES AND GEOL. SPECIAL PUBLICATION 58, 1981,

  • Deposit

    P. 29.

  • Deposit

    ALDERMAN, S. S., JR. MINERAL INTEREST EVALUATION COST

  • Deposit

    ESTIMATE, PROPOSED EXPANSION OF FORT IRWIN, CALIFORNIA.

  • Deposit

    REPORT PREPARED FOR DEPT. OF ARMY, LOS ANGELES DISTRICT,

  • Deposit

    CORPS OF ENGINEERS, CONTRACT DACA09-88-C-0081, DEC. 21,

  • Deposit

    1988.

  • Deposit

    CONVERSE WARD DAVIS DIXON, INC., GEOTECHNICAL CONSULTANTS,

  • Deposit

    1980, MINERAL RESOURCE INVESTIGATION, SHINING DAWN MINE,

  • Deposit

    LANE MTN. QUADRANGLE, (UNPUBLISHED REPORT), 15 P.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 16-SEP-1993 Federspiel U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

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