Oat Hill Mine (Facility)

Plant in Napa 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. Mining district
  10. Mineral rights holdings
  11. Land status
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10261509
MAS/MILS ID 0060550127
Record type Site
Current site name Oat Hill Mine (Facility)
Alternate or previous names Oak Hill Extension

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -122.52857, 38.67488 (WGS84)
Elevation 561
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Napa(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Detert Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Healdsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Rosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Napa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010 N 006 W 33 California

Comments on the location information

  • LAT/LONG OF EXTENSION IS N384009/W1223139 T010N/R006W SEC27, SWSW. REF POINT IS THE PLANT, PRECISION OF < 1000M.
  • LOC. ALSO IN SEC. 27, 28, & 34

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) Franciscan melange

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Plant
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Plant type Beneficiation (Mill)

Mining district

District name Mayacmas

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Unknown

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. V. 42, NO. 3, JULY, 1946, 261-5

  • Deposit

    JOUR. V. 44, NO. 2, APRIL, 1948, PP. 181-2

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 922-L, P. 347, US BUM, R.I. 4542, OCT. 1949

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLANT SITE ONCE PROCESSED ORE FROM OTHER MINES IN THE AREA. SITE CONSISTED OF LARGE ORE PROCESSING FACILITY AND LARGE VEGETATED WASTE ROCK PILE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 23-MAY-1996 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative California resources

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