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Mullet Island Salt Works

Past Producer in Imperial county in California, United States with commodities Bromine, Halite
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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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10076587
MRDS ID W023679
Record type Site
Current site name Mullet Island Salt Works
Alternate or previous names Reeder Salt Company, Mullet Island Paint Company, Mullet Island Development Company
Related records 10115152

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.60888, 33.23312 (WGS84)
Elevation 58
Relative position 6 MI W OF NILAND.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Imperial(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Niland(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Salton Sea(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

LG(Federal land areas administered by LG)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Imperial

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
011S 013E 10 California

Comments on the location information

  • W OF MULLET ISLAND, SOUTHEAST SHORE OF SALTON SEA.; PREVIOUS QUAD DESIGNATION = SALTON SEA 1:250000

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Bromine Primary
Halite Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.60888, 33.23312
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form BLANKET

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1919

Mining district

District name Salton Sea

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MORTON, PAUL K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY CALIFORNIA, CAL. DIV. MINES AND GEOLOGY, COUNTY REPORT NO. 7.

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R.J., AND TUCKER, W.B., 1942, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES BULL., V. 38, H2.

  • Deposit

    CALIF B 176 P 101, MIS V. 11, NO. 6, P. 3.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1992 Gray, Floyd U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JUL-1993 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

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