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Box Canyon Mine

Occurrence in Riverside county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033515
MRDS ID M020092
Record type Site
Current site name Box Canyon Mine
Alternate or previous names Shaver Well
Related records 10261977

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.00777, 33.63505 (WGS84)
Relative position 6 MI. N. E. OF MECCA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Riverside(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Thermal Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Palm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Ana(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salton Sea(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Mojave-Salton Sea(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Riverside

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 006S 009E 24 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE, UTM APPROX

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Psilomelane Ore
Pyrolusite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.00777, 33.63505
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form NODULES
    Strike N60W
    Dip 47NE
    Width 0.61M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the workings information

  • SHALLOW CUT 20 FT LONG.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 P. 182

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125 1943 P. 154

  • Deposit

    TRASK, PARKER. NOTES ON THE MANGANESE RESOURCES OF CALIF, UNPUB. 1944

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R.J., AND TUCKER, W.B., 1945, MINERAL RESOURCES OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY; CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 41, NO. 3, P. 150.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NODULES OCCUR ALONG STRIKE OF SCHIST, 10-30% MN.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1977 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1993 Unkefer, Jason U.S. Geological Survey

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