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Hotaling

Producer in Placer county in California, United States with commodity Iron
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032067
MRDS ID M012218
Record type Site
Current site name Hotaling
Related records 10285547

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.0677, 38.97628 (WGS84)
Relative position NR. CTR. SW1/4 SEC. 10 (TOPO MAP) - 3 1/2 MILES WEST OF CLIPPER GAP BY ROAD * FOLIO 5.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Auburn(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(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 Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 013N 008E 15 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.0677, 38.97628
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: DEPOSIT IS IN THE FORM OF LENSES AT THE CONTACT OF GRANODIORITE AND A METAMORPHIC SERIES OF PROBABLY PALEOZOIC AGE. ORE MINERALS WERE MAGNETITE AND HEMATITE CONTAINING FROM 40 TO 65 PERCENT IRON

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner John Barnicott
    First year 1920
    Last year 1926

Comments on the production information

  • PROD. OVER 15,000 T PIG IRON (1883). LOCATED 1857 BUT NO ORE SHIPPED UNTIL 1869 - BLAST FURNACE OPERATED 1880-1885 - NO PRODUCTION OF LOWER GRADE ORES FOR IRON SINCE TURN OF CENTURY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    DOM BULL. 141, P. 73

  • Deposit

    SEVENTEENTH REPORT OF STATE MINERALOGIST, 1920, P. 452

  • Deposit

    USGS BULL. 430, P. 220, 225-227; ADD. REF.: MINERAL ABSTRACTS (DOM)- IRON, P. 21-22; DOM 15TH REPORT OF STATE MINERALOGIST, P. 390; 23D REPORT OF ST. MIN., P. 281, 283

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A BLAST FURNACE PRODUCING 30-35 T. PIG IRON DAILY OPERATED ON PROPERTY 1880-85 USING CHARCOAL MADE LOCALLY AND LIMESTONE MINED NEARBY. RED AND YELLOW OCHRE SHIPPED FROM VICINITY IN LATE 1920'S FOR MINERAL PAINT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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