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

Herman Quartz

Past Producer in Mariposa county in California, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034713
MRDS ID M021593
Record type Site
Current site name Herman Quartz
Related records 10237037

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.00654, 37.55882 (WGS84)
Elevation 762

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mariposa(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bear Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oakdale(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Merced(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Mariposa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004S 018E 29 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST NEAR DILTZ & GOLDEN KEY MINES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.00654, 37.55882
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 3.05M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Whitlock

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND. HAD NOT BEEN WORKED FOR SOME TIME PRIOR TO 1920

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 64.01M

Comments on the workings information

  • DEVELOPED BY A TUNNEL, 110 FT DRIFT ON ONE VEIN, 100 FT DRIFT ON THE OTHER

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CASTELLO, W.O., 1921 , MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF MARIPOSA COUNTY IN SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF THE STATE GEOLOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 118

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS, TWO
Deposit FORMERLY TWO CLAIMS OWNED BY GEORGE HERMAN OF MARIPOSA. CLAIMS BECAME DELINQUENT & ONE OF THEM WAS RELOCATED BY A MR. IVES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1979 Bowman, J. And Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey

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.