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Yellowjacket

Past Producer in Merced 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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10040874
MRDS ID M055752
Record type Site
Current site name Yellowjacket
Related records 10236733

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.22018, 36.9191 (WGS84)
Relative position 13 MI NE OF HOLLISTER

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Merced(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mariposa Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Monterey(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Monterey(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Panoche-San Luis Reservoir(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Merced

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012S 007E 05 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED APPROXIMATELY

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore
Barite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization Of The Basalt

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Mafic Volcanic Rock > Basalt

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.22018, 36.9191
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Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Brecciation

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Stayton

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner R. B. Knox

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 182.88M

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    BAILEY, E. H. AND MYERS, W. B., 1949, QUICKSILVER AND ANTIMONY DEPOSITS OF THE STAYTON DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA: CALIF. DIV. OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULL. 147, P. 37 - 56

  • Deposit

    LEITH, C.J., 1949, GEOLOGY OF THE QUIEN SABE QUADRANGLE, CALIF.: CDM BULL. 147, P. 33-34

  • Production

    HOLMES, 1965

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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