1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Copper King

Past Producer in Santa Barbara county in California, United States with commodity Copper
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. 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. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103016
MRDS ID M021053
Record type Site
Current site name Copper King
Related records 10165257

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.95345, 34.71666 (WGS84)
Relative position 12 MILES NE OF LOS OLIVOS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Barbara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Figueroa Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cuyama(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Los Angeles(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Santa Ynez(hydrologic unit)

Central California Coastal(hydrologic accounting unit)

Central California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Los Padres National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Santa Barbara

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 007N 029W 05 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.95345, 34.71666
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name San Rafael

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION IS UNDETERMINED: ERIC, J.H., 1948 , LISTS IT AS A QUESTIONABLE SMALL PRODUCER.

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT 1,100 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B., 1925 ; LOS ANGELES FIELD DIV., 21ST REPT. STATE MIN.; CALF. MIN. BUR., P. 541

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Editor 14-MAR-1994 Mosier, D.L. U.S. Geological Survey CORRECTED LAT.-LONG., UTM ZONE.
Reporter 01-FEB-1979 Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.