Good Hope Mine

Past Producer in Riverside county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10064448
MRDS ID TC38820
Record type Site
Current site name Good Hope Mine
Related records 10189122

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.55696, 33.73615 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Riverside(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Palm View Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Palm Springs(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Ana(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salton Sea(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Mojave-Salton Sea(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

BIA(Federal land areas administered by BIA)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Riverside

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 05S 004W 15 California

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE AGUA CALIENTE INDIAN RESERVATION. LAT-LONG FROM CENTER OF SECTION 15.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.55696, 33.73615

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NS
    Dip 55W

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIKES COULD BE ANOTHER PHASE OF MAIN GRANITE BODY, A MAFIC DIKE OF VARIABLE THICKNESS N20E IS THE NORTHRN LIMIT OF THE ORE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • $2,000,000 TOTAL PRODUCTION.

Comments on the workings information

  • 350 FT SHAFT, DRIFTS ON 95 FT, 166 FT LEVELS DRIVEN INTO VEINS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R.J., AND TUCKER, W.B., 1945, MINERAL RESOURCES OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY; CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 41, NO. 3, P. 132-3

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEINS FOLLOWING A FRACTURE IN THE FOOTWALL, IN PLACES FRACTURE IS POORLY DEFINED, IN OTHERS QUARTZ IS FRACTURED INDICATING A RECENT MOVEMENT, VEINS ASSOCIATED WITH FELSIC DIKES.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1993 Unkefer, Jason U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Authoritative California resources

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