Casa Diablo Quicksilver

Occurrence in Mono county in California, United States with commodity Mercury
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040666
MRDS ID M055521
Record type Site
Current site name Casa Diablo Quicksilver
Alternate or previous names Casa Diablo Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.55484, 37.58272 (WGS84)
Elevation 2231
Relative position 1 MI NW OF CASA DIABLO MOUNTAIN; 6 MI ENE OF TOM'S PLACE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mono(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Casa Diablo Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Benton Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo 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 Mono

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004S 031E 21 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.55484, 37.58272

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R. J., AND TUCKER, W. B., 1940, MINERAL RESOURCES OF MONO COUNTY: CDMG BULL. V. 36, NO. 2

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1975 Gassaway, J. S. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.