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Hixson Lease

Occurrence in Kern 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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Ownership information
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040692
MRDS ID M055550
Record type Site
Current site name Hixson Lease
Related records 10211794

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.51898, 35.2011 (WGS84)
Elevation 972
Relative position 1 MI E OF TEHACHAPI LOOP, S.P.R.R.; 7 MI NW OF TEHACHAPI; 1/4 MI FROM U.S. HWY 466

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Kern(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Keene(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Tehachapi(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Bakersfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Middle Kern-Upper Tehachapi-Grapevine(hydrologic unit)

Tulare-Buena Vista Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Tulare-Buena Vista Lakes(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Kern

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031S 032E 26 California

Comments on the location information

  • SW/4 SEC. 26

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Cretaceous
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.51898, 35.2011
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED AND FRACTURE COATING

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Tehachapi

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner John S. Broome
    First year 1958

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 9.14M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TROXEL, B. W. AND MORTON, P. K., 1962, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CDMG COUNTY REPORT 1

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DIKE IS 100 FT LONG BY 20 - 30 FT WIDE

Reporter information

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

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