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Potholes Placer

Past Producer in Imperial county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10065063
MRDS ID TC40058
Record type Site
Current site name Potholes Placer
Related records 10260735

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.50551, 32.83564 (WGS84)
Relative position 0.25 MILE WEST OF LAGUNA DAM.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Imperial(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bard(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Yuma(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

El Centro(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Imperial

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 015S 023E 25 N2 California

Comments on the location information

  • ADJACENT TO AND UNDERLYING ALL AMERICAN CANAL.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Gravel
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • FLANKING RIDGES UNDERLAIN BY TERT BRECCIA. E SIDE OF CANYON UNDERLAIN BY PRE-TERT GRANITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant Yes

Mining district

District name Chocolate Mountains

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL YIELD PRODUCED $2,000,000. PLACER MINING AS EARLY AS 1780.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORTON, P.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION MINES AND GEOLOGY, COUNTY REPORT NO. 7, P. 58.

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R.J., AND TUCKER, W.B., 1942, MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 38, NO. 2, P. 124-5.

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IN QUATERNARY GRAVEL OF A CANYON FOLLOWING N10W TRENDING FAULT. SOURCE MAY BE THREE C'S DEPOSIT. THERE IS NO DIRECT DRAINAGE TO POTHOLES NOW BUT COULD HAVE BEEN IN HOLOCENE, PLEISTOCENE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1993 Unkefer, Jason U.S. Geological Survey

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