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Hooker Creek

Occurrence in Santa Clara county in California, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver
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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. Land status
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077491
MRDS ID W025171
Record type Site
Current site name Hooker Creek
Related records 10116468

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.9577, 37.16686 (WGS84)
Elevation 475
Relative position 7 MILES SOUTH OF LOS GATOS, ABOVE ALDERCROFT HEIGHTS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Clara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Los Gatos(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coyote(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Santa Clara

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 009S 001W 10 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Malachite Ore

Analytical data

Result ORE FROM NO. 1 ADIT
Result 18.13 % CU, .82 OZ AU AND .60 OZ AG.

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.9577, 37.16686
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 256.03M

Comments on the workings information

  • FOUR ADITS, NO. 1 ABOUT 20 FT. NO. 2 ABOUT 235 FT., NO. 3 ABOUT 85 FT. AND NO. 4 ABOUT 500 FT. IN LENGTH. WORKED IN 1917 - 1918

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ERIC, J.H., 1948 : COPPER IN CALIFORNIA BULL. 144 : DIV. OF MINES, P. 323

  • Deposit

    FRANKE, H.A., 1930 : SAN FRANCISCO FIELD DIV., 26 TH REPT. STATE MIN.; CALIF. DIV. OF MINES, P. 9

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit HIGHLY MINERALIZED ZONE IN NO. 2 ADIT, 85 FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

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

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Authoritative California resources

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