Frankel Prospect

Occurrence in Santa Clara county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033590
MRDS ID M020191
Record type Site
Current site name Frankel Prospect
Related records 10165002

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.76409, 37.38797 (WGS84)
Relative position 6 MI. E. OF BERRYESSA, E. OF ALUM ROCK PARK, SAN JOSE.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Clara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Calaveras Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coyote(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Santa Clara

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 002E California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.76409, 37.38797

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: STAINS OF MANGANESE OXIDE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 P. 250

  • Deposit

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STAINS OF MANGANESE OXIDE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey REPLACING LOST LOCATION.
Updater 10-NOV-1997 Oland, G. P. (Orris, Greta J.) U.S. Geological Survey OLAND AND ORRIS MERGED RECORDS
Editor 08-MAY-1998 Mason, George U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative California resources

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