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Clark Claim Vernon

Producer in Alameda county in California, United States with commodity Chromium
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10027970
MRDS ID M004669
Record type Site
Current site name Clark Claim Vernon
Related records 10114060

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.6177, 37.55602 (WGS84)
Relative position S 1/2

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Alameda(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cedar Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Stockton(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Alameda

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004S 003E 26 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Chromium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chromite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.6177, 37.55602
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Ralph W. Newman
    First year 1950

Comments on the production information

  • PROPERTY OWNED BY VERNON CLARK IN 1916; LEASED BY THE NOBLE ELEC. STEEL CO. WHICH PRODUCED 45 LONG TONS OF ORE. SHAFT HIT WATER DURING 1916 OPERATIONS AND SUBSEQUENTLY MINE WAS ABANDONED

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINED SHAFT

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL. V. 46, NO.2, APRIL 1950, P.342, PL. 58

  • Deposit

    DOM BULL. 134, PT. 2, CHAP. 2., P.52, PL.1

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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