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

Bender Dell Bender

Occurrence in Marin county in California, United States with commodity Tungsten
Map
XML
JSON
KML
D
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. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10030808
MRDS ID M009237
Record type Site
Current site name Bender Dell Bender
Related records 10285029

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.85857, 38.091 (WGS84)
Relative position 3/4 MI. W. OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE HIGHWAY. LOCATED ON THE BENDER PROPERTY ON THE BANKS OF THE STREAM THAT ENTERS TOMALES BAY AT WILLOW POINT. TWO DEPOSITS, THE SECOND BEING ON E. SLOPE OF PT. REYES HILL AND MAY BE IN SEC. 20. THE LIMESTONE IS WHITE AND COARSELY CRYSTALLINE AND HAS NOT BEEN DEVELOPED. (V. 51, P. 281)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Marin(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Inverness(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Napa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Rosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Tomales-Drake Bays(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Point Reyes National Seashore(National Seashore)

National Seashore NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Marin

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 003N 009W 21 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.85857, 38.091
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1950

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner E. A. Bender

Comments on the production information

  • BENDER DEVELOPED DEPOSIT IN HIS SPARE TIME WITH HELP OF ONE MAN; MILL WAS BUILT IN 1954 AND SOME CONCENTRATES WERE SHIPPED IN 1955.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. J. V. 51, NO. 3, JULY 1955, P. 265-66, 289, PL. 4

  • Deposit

    USGS MIN. YEARBOOK, 1955, V. 3, P. 219

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. 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.