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Pawnee

Past Producer in San Diego county in California, United States with commodity Tungsten
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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. Land status
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035195
MRDS ID M022372
Record type Site
Current site name Pawnee
Alternate or previous names Carr, Oak Grove Mine
Related records 10238211

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.70502, 33.42505 (WGS84)
Relative position 6 MILES NE OF OAK GROVE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Diego(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Beauty Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Borrego Valley(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Ana(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Santa Margarita(hydrologic unit)

Laguna-San Diego Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern California Coastal(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 San Diego

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 009S;008S 003E;003E 06;31 California

Comments on the location information

  • NE 1/4 SEC 31, UTM ACC.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Scheelite Ore
Calcite Gangue
Diopside Gangue
Epidote Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result AVG. 1% WO3 FOR LARGEST ORE BODY, AVG. .5% WO3 FOR SMALL ORE BODY.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.70502, 33.42505
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N20-25E
    Dip 85 SE
    Length 21.34M
    Width 2.44M
    Depth to bottom 42.67M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: METAMORPHIC ROCKS ARE PREDOMINATELY SCHIST AND GNEISS WHICH ARE CUT BY SMALL IRREGULAR BODIES OF GRANITIC ROCKS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Park

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 54.86M

Comments on the workings information

  • 180 FT. SHAFT WHICH HAS DRIFTS TRENDING N-NE AND S-SW ON 90 AND 140 FT. LEVELS. THESE DRIFTS RANGE IN LENGTHS FROM 70 TO 90 FT. AND ARE APPENDED TO STOPES. SOUTH OF SHAFT IS A DRIFT ADIT TRENDING N5E. SMALLER ORE BODY WORKED BY AN OPEN CUT TRENDING NORTH, 125 FT. LONG AND 50 FT. DEEP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    LEMMON, D.M., TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN THE US; UNPUBLISHED DATA, P. 373-374.

  • Deposit

    WEBER, H.F., 1943; GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES SAN DIEGO, CA; COUNTY REPT. 3; CA. DIV. MINES AND GEOLOGY, P. 273-274.

  • Production

    WEBER, H.F.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit TWO TACTITE BODIES 1,100 FT. APART SMALL ORE BODY STRIKES N-NE, DIPS STEEPLY SE, IT IS 75 FT. LONG AND 45 TO 55 FT. WIDE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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