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

Gold Basin Mine

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036085
MRDS ID M024116
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Basin Mine
Alternate or previous names Wild Rose Mine?
Related records 10261201

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.52729, 35.94276 (WGS84)
Elevation 1631
Relative position 2.3 MI E MOUNTAIN SPRING IN MOUNTAIN SPRINGS CANYON

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mountain Springs Canyon(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ridgecrest(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trona(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Indian Wells-Searles Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

NAVY(Federal land areas administered by NAVY)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 023S 041E 11,14 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST. REF. PLACES MINE IN SEC. 14 AND 15. LOCATION UNCERTAIN

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.52729, 35.94276
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 0.61M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ANDESITIC DIKE CUTS GRANITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Argus

Land status

Ownership category Military Reservation

Comments on the workings information

  • NUMBER OF SHALLOW SHAFTS AND OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORMAN, L.A., JR. AND STEWART, RICHARD M., 1951, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 47, NO. 1, P. 150

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B. AND SAMPSON, R.J., 1938, MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 34, NO. 4, P. 396

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN ALONG DIKE VEIN IS 1-2 FT. IN THICKNESS
Deposit 7 CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) 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.