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Last Chance Peak

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodity Mercury
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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. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103798
MRDS ID M055478
Record type Site
Current site name Last Chance Peak
Alternate or previous names Last Chance Mountain
Related records 10187965

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.6637, 37.27773 (WGS84)
Elevation 1756
Relative position NORTH OF DEATH VALLEY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Last Chance Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Last Chance Range(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Goldfield(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Death Valley National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 039E 02 California

Comments on the location information

  • PROSPECTS SW OF LAST CHANCE SPRING.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Cinnabar Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.6637, 37.27773
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years 1968

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCED MIN. OF 1000 FL IN 1968, 100 FL IN 1969. CLOSED IN 1970

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MURDOCH, JOSEPH, AND WEBB, R. W., 1966, MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA...CENTENNIAL VOLUME (1866 - 1966): CDMG BULL. 189.

  • Deposit

    MINERALS YEARBOOKS, 1959-1973, USBM

  • Production

    USBM MINERALS YEARBOOKS

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MINED BY INDIANS (MURDOCH AND WEBB, P. 27).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1976 Gassaway, J. S. 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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