Wright Prospect

Occurrence in Sonoma county in California, United States with commodity Manganese
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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10095201
MRDS ID M020255
Record type Site
Current site name Wright Prospect
Related records 10287744

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.00858, 38.81766 (WGS84)
Relative position 300 FT. ABOVE THE RUSSIAN RIVER ON THE W. SIDE. ONE MI. E. OF CLOVERDALE BY ROAD, NEAR MENDOCINO COUNTY BOUNDARY.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sonoma(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Cloverdale(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Point Arena(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Rosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Russian(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 Sonoma

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011N 010W 07 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN SE 1/4 SECTION 7 , UTM APPROX.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Analytical data

Result ORE GRADE LESS THAN 10 PERCENT MANGANESE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.00858, 38.81766

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: BRECCIATED WHITE CHERT CARRIES MANGANESE FILMS ON FRACTURE SURFACES. INTERBEDDED BROWN AND WHITE CHERT STRIKES N 15 E AND DIPS 45 E. MANGANESE OCCURS AS THIN FILMS ON JOINT AND BEDDING SURFACES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 P. 286

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 125 1943 P. 188

Reporter information

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