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Picacho

Past Producer in Imperial county in California, United States with commodity Copper
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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. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034271
MRDS ID M021016
Record type Site
Current site name Picacho
Alternate or previous names Copper Glance, Copper King
Related records 10163864

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.60385, 32.97618 (WGS84)
Relative position 3 MILES EAST OF PICACHO PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Imperial(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Little Picacho Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Yuma(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

El Centro(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Imperial Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic accounting unit)

Lower Colorado(hydrologic subregion)

Lower Colorado(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 Imperial

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 014S 022E 01 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • LOW-GRADE ORE IN OPEN CUTS, SILICEOUS OUTCROPS AT NORTH END OF DEPOSIT WITH CHALCOPYRITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Malachite Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.60385, 32.97618
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR
    Strike NW
    Dip 50 SW

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: COUNTY ROCK IN SOUTHERN HALF OF AREA IS A DARK - GRAY METAVOLCANIC ROCK CONTAINING NUMEROUS BLASTOPHENOCRYSTS OF SERICITIZED ORTHOCLASE, REMAINING PROSPECTS ARE IN METASANDSTONE AND METACONGLOMERATE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Picacho

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION REPORTED

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 30.48M

Comments on the workings information

  • 5 SHAFTS 50 - 75 FT. DEEP AND A NUMBER OF TRENCHES AND OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ERIC, J. H., 1948 , COPPER IN CALIFORNIA BULL. 144 ; DIV. OF MINES, P. 237 .

  • Deposit

    MORTON, P. K., 1977 , GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, COUNT REPORT 7 ; CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, P. 38

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R. J. AND TUCKER, W. B., 1942 ; MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY; CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 38 , NO. 2 ; DIV. OF MINES, P. 111 - 112.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE COMPRISED OF 160 ACRES.
Deposit MINERALIZATION APPEARS FOR A MILE IN LENGTH AND ABOUT 1/4 MILE IN WIDTH.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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