1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Blue Bell Deposit

Past Producer in San Diego county in California, United States with commodities Gemstone, Tin
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
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 10262475
MRDS ID W024774
MAS/MILS ID 0060730107
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Bell Deposit
Alternate or previous names Panasa San Diego Exposition, Blue Tourmaline Claim, San Diego Group, Panama Claim, San Diego Claim, Exposition Claim
Related records 10077258

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -116.62725, 33.39725 (WGS84)
Elevation 1707
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Diego(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beauty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Borrego Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Ana(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salton Sea(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 San Diego

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 009 S 003 E 12 SW California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gemstone Tertiary
Tin Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

Ore Body (1) -116.62725, 33.39725
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-MAR-1991 Rumsey, Clayton M. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

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