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

Cave City Claim

Occurrence in Calaveras county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10029172
MRDS ID M006566
Record type Site
Current site name Cave City Claim
Related records 10260250

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.51212, 38.19991 (WGS84)
Relative position 3.5 MI. SE OF MOUNTAIN RANCH; BEYOND THE FORMER SITE OF CAVE CITY, ON A FAIRLY STEEP SLOPE NEAR THE TOP OF A RIDGE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Calaveras(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Calaveritas(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Andreas(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Calaveras(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Calaveras

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004N 013E 14 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOC. APPROX.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE 6 TO 7 PERCENT MANGANESE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.51212, 38.19991
ListMap

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: REDDISH BROWN IRON OXIDE, WITH VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF MANGANESE OXIDES IN SERICITE SCHIST. THE IRON OXIDE OCCURS AS POCKETS AND LENSES IN THE SCHIST, WHICH BELONGS TO THE CALAVERAS SERIES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • PIT 4 BY 3' AND 8' DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. B. 152, P. 41; B. 125, P. 106

  • Deposit

    EC. MINERAL MAP NO. 5, 1943

  • Deposit

    USBM R.I. 5579, P. 22

  • Deposit

    CALIF. COUNTY REPT. NO. 2 , P. 211 ; USGS MR-23

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1972 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1977 Von Dohlen, E.; 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.