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Un-Named Dry Washer Operation

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Iron
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Ownership information
  17. Workings at the site
  18. Links to other databases
  19. Bibliographic references
  20. General comments
  21. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10036263
MRDS ID M025011
Record type Site
Current site name Un-Named Dry Washer Operation

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.45534, 35.92692 (WGS84)
Elevation 1658
Relative position 1 MILE DUE EAST OF BIRCHUM SPRING, 1.6 MILES WBY NW FROM RUBY SPRINGS,1.2 MILES N BY NW FROM QUAIL SPRING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Homewood 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 042E 21 NE OF NW OF NW California

Comments on the location information

  • APPROX 4.75 MILES ALONG BIRCHUM SPRINGS CAMPGROUND RD

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Iron Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Ore
Epidote Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Holocene
  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Alluvium

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.45534, 35.92692
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Basin And Range/Walker Lane

Ore body information

  • General form IRREGULAR

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Stream Channel, Intermittent

Comments on the geologic information

  • INTRUSIVES CAPPED BY BASALTIC LAVA FLOW

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

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Naval Weapons Center
    Home office China Lake, Ca.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface
    Length 36.58M

Comments on the workings information

  • STREAM CHANNEL, THREE SETS OF RIFFLES CONSTRUCTED FROM BASALT COBBLES ALONG FORKED SECTION OF STREAM

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    RODGERS, C.; HUBER, D.; AHENZA MOORE, T.-FIELD INVESTIGATIONS, NWC, 04-83

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SMALL PLACER OPERATION WITH RELATIVELY LITTLE WORK, LOTS OF PREPARATION - NOT MUCH DRY WASHING DONE, GRAVELS LOOKED RELATIVELY UNDESTURBED ; INFO.SRC : 3 FIELD OBSERV

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1983 Atienza Moore, Therese M. (Neal, Conrad L.) Naval Weapons Center-Geothermal Utilization Division

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