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Indian Pass Placer

Occurrence in Imperial county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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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. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10065044
MRDS ID TC40035
Record type Site
Current site name Indian Pass Placer
Related records 10139176

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -114.78052, 33.01201 (WGS84)
Relative position 1 MILE SOUTH OF INDIAN PASS.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Imperial(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Quartz Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Trigo Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Salton Sea(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salton Sea(hydrologic accounting unit)

Southern Mojave-Salton Sea(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Imperial

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 013S 020E 29,32 California

Comments on the location information

  • SW BASE OF CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Dumortierite Gangue
Kyanite Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -114.78052, 33.01201
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • PRESENCE OF GOLD, DUMORTIERITE, KYANITE SUGGESTS SOURCE WAS CARGO MUCHACHO MOUNTAINS, NOT CHOCOLATE MOUNTAINS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Chocolate Mountains

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORTON, P.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION MINES AND GEOLOGY, COUNTY REPORT NO. 7, P. 53

  • Other Database

    CIMRI

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit PLACERS OF UNDETERMINED TENOR IN PLIOCENE FANGLOMERATE. FANGLOMERATE IS A GRAY CLAY TO SILT SIZE MATRIX CONTAINING ANGULAR TO SUBROUNDED CLASTS OF ACID IGNEOUS ROCK, QUARTZITE, BASALT, DUMORTIERITE, AND KYANITE.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

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