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James Creck Placer

Producer in Napa 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040793
MRDS ID M055665
Record type Site
Current site name James Creck Placer
Alternate or previous names Patten Claims

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.50301, 38.66988 (WGS84)
Relative position 18 MI N OF ST. HELENA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Napa(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Detert Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Healdsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Rosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Napa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 010N 006W 34,35 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED WHERE JAMES CREEK CROSSES SECTION BOUNDARY

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.50301, 38.66988
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAY ALSO HAVE FORMED IN PART FROM AN ORE BODY NOW ENTIRELY ERODED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1915

Mining district

District name East Mayacmas

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner H. M. Simmons

Comments on the workings information

  • MATERIAL CONCENTRATED BY SLUICING

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    HOLMES, G. W., JR., 1965, MERCURY IN CALIFORNIA: IN USBM IC 8252

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H., USGS, PERSONAL FILES

  • Deposit

    RANSOME, A. L., AND KELLOGG, J. L., 1939, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES IN CALIFORNIA: IN CALIF. JOUR. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 35, P. 353 - 486.

  • Deposit

    BRADLEY, W. W., 1918, QUICKSILVER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA: CALIF. STATE MINING BUR. BULL. 78, 389 P.

  • Deposit

    5) YATES, R.G. AND HILPERT, L.S., 1946, QUICKSILVER DEPOSITS OF THE EASTERN MAYACMAS DISTRICT, LAKE AND NAPA COUNTIES, CALIF.: CJMG, V. 42, P. 231-286

  • Production

    USBM DATA

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUL-1976 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

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