Spanish Claim

Past Producer in San Benito county in California, United States with commodity Mercury
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 10261558
MRDS ID M055800
MAS/MILS ID 0060690119
Record type Site
Current site name Spanish Claim
Alternate or previous names Spanish Mine, Spanish
Related records 10040914

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -120.69019, 36.40744 (WGS84)
Elevation 1244
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Benito(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Idria(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Coalinga(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Monterey(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Panoche-San Luis Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(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 Benito

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 017 S 012 E 31 C NE California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -120.69019, 36.40744

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1954, VOL. III, P. 228.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 08-FEB-1991 Ridenour, James U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative California resources

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