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Beaver Creek

Occurrence in Siskiyou county in California, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. Mineral occurrence model information
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040648
MRDS ID M055502
Record type Site
Current site name Beaver Creek
Alternate or previous names Hornbrook

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.87307, 41.96483 (WGS84)
Elevation 1073
Relative position NEAR OAK BAR, ON THE HEADWATERS OF THE WEST FORK OF BEAVER CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Siskiyou(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckhorn Bally(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Yreka(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Klamath(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Klamath National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Siskiyou

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 048N 009W 34 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION TO CINNABAR SPRING

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 179
USGS model code 27c
Deposit model name Silica-carbonate Hg

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.87307, 41.96483
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form FRACTURE COATINGS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Comments on development

  • SMALL FURNACE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AUBURY, L.E., 1908, THE QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU BULLETIN 27, P. 196

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NOT BARTON - LANGE PROPERTY ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit MAY BE SAME AS IVANHOE GROUP

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1976 Gassaway, J. S. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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