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

Copper King and Star

Occurrence in Inyo county in California, United States with commodity Copper
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. Materials information
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Land status
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10033968
MRDS ID M020624
Record type Site
Current site name Copper King and Star
Related records 10188149

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.55258, 36.65135 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ubehebe Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Saline Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Eureka-Saline Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Death Valley National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 015S 041E 07 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.55258, 36.65135
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Ubehebe

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 24.38M
    Overall depth 18.29M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT 60 FT., DRIFTS, 20 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AUBURY, L. E., 1908 , COPPER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA BULL. 50 ; CALIF. MIN. BUR., P. 309 - 310

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit STAR; 800 FT. LENGTH ALONG NORTHERLY STRIKE WITH WIDTH OF 60 FT. COPPER KING; LEDGE, WIDTH OF 100 FT., LENGTH OF 700 FT.
Deposit NO OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1978 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) 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.