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Division Creek

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10008698
MRDS ID D001037
Record type Site
Current site name Division Creek

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.33426, 36.94995 (WGS84)
Elevation 2316
Relative position 12 MILES NW OF INDEPENDENCE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Aberdeen(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Whitney(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fresno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Owens Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

John Muir Wilderness(Wilderness)

Wilderness FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 11S 33E 35 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Quartz Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.33426, 36.94995
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 15.24M
    Width 2.44M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: THICK DETRITUS COVERS MUCH OF THE STEEP HILL SLOPE, LIMESTONE AND SCHIST IS SURROUNDED BY QTZ. MONZONITE AND CUT BY THE DIKES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • A FEW TONS MINED IN 1942

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M.; TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN THE US, VOL. I; UNPUBLISHED DATA, P. 214-215

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M. AND TWETO, O.L., 1962; TUNGSTEN IN THE US; USGS MAP, MR-25

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINERALIZED AREA IS POORLY EXPOSED

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAY-1974 Elliott, James E. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 09-JUN-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

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