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Red Cliff Prospect

Occurrence in Trinity county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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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. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077858
MRDS ID W025917
Record type Site
Current site name Red Cliff Prospect
Related records 10166141

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.30305, 39.98179 (WGS84)
Elevation 427
Relative position 3 MI. S - SW OF LITTLE DEER PROSPECT, ON HULLS CREEK ABOUT 0.5 MI. BELOW (NORTH OF) THE MOUTH OF JESUS CREEK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mina(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Covelo(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Ukiah(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Eel(hydrologic unit)

Northern California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Trinity

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Humboldt 005S 008E 36 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM APPROX., ALTITUDE GIVEN DOES NOT CORRESPOND WITH SECTION LOCATION ON TOPO. ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :UNDETERMINED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Rhodochrosite Ore

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: ORE OCCURS AS PARTLY OXIDIZED BROWN CARBONATE ASSOCIATED WITH MASSIVE AND THIN-BEDDED CHERT. CHERT AND ORE APPEAR TO MAKE UP LARGE BLOCK BROKEN FROM CLIFF. SMALL VEINLETS OF RHODOCHROSITE ARE NUMEROUS. BLACK MANGANESE OXIDES ARE ON CRACKS AND SURFACES. BROWN ORE CONTAINS NUMEROUS WELL PRESERVED RADIOLARIAN TESTS SILICA REPLACED BY MANGANESE CARBONATE. BROWN AMORPHOUS MATERIAL MIXED WITH CARBONATE IS A MANGANESE BEARING OPAL.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    E.F.DAVIS AND A.O. WOODFORD AUG. 1918

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 PP. 332 - 333

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125 1943 P. 202

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1978 Killman, K.; Albers, J. U.S. Geological Survey

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