Paul Warner Property

Occurrence in Sonoma 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033638
MRDS ID M020252
Record type Site
Current site name Paul Warner Property
Alternate or previous names Big Bluff

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.7369, 38.72988 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sonoma(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Saint Helena(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Healdsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Rosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Russian(hydrologic unit)

Northern California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Sonoma

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 008W 10 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN SW 1/4 AND N 1/2 SECTION 10 , UTM APPROX

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.7369, 38.72988

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: IN CREEK BELOW CLIFFS OF CHERT AND BASALT ARE NUMEROUS BLOCKS OF HARD YELLOW-BROWN MATERIAL, A FINE GRANULAR AGGREGATE OF QUARTZ STAINED YELLOW BY IRON OXIDE. OUTER SURFACES ARE COATED WITH BLACK MANGANESE OXIDE. SOME HIGH GRADE ORE IS FOUND ON OUTSIDE OF BLOCKS. YELLOW-BROWN MATERIAL IS CUT BY SOME NARROW VEINS OF PINK CARBONATE, WHICH IS RHODOCHROSITE OR MANGANIFEROUS CALCITE. IN N 1/2 SECTION 10 IS SMALL BODY OF MANGANESE STAINED CHERT, WITH ADMIXTURES OF SILICEOUS ORE.

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. 285

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125 1943 P. 188

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Killman, K.; Albers, J. 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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