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Union Mine

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Lead
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103478
MRDS ID M024075
Record type Site
Current site name Union Mine
Related records 10138878

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.03648, 36.71357 (WGS84)
Elevation 1295
Relative position 2 MI N OWENYO STATION

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Union Wash(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Whitney(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Fresno(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Owens Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 014S 036E 14 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Lead Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Marble

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.03648, 36.71357
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike E-W
    Dip 65N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Russ

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND. ORE WAS LOW-GRADE

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 609.6M
    Overall depth 579.12M

Comments on the workings information

  • 5 TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WARING, C.A., AND HUGHENIN, E., 1917, GOLD-INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V.15, P. 84

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN, AVG. 5 FT. IN THICKNESS. OUTCROP TRACED SEVERAL THOUSAND FT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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