Code Siding

Producer in San Bernardino county in California, United States with commodity Wollastonite
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Geologic structures
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10108945
MRDS ID I000137
Record type Site
Current site name Code Siding

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.6259, 35.49999 (WGS84)
Relative position NORTH OF RANDSBURG, MIDWAY BETWEEN RANDSBURG AND RIDGECREST.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Bernardino(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

El Paso Peaks(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Cuddeback Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trona(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Indian Wells-Searles Valleys(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(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 San Bernardino

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Wollastonite Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • WOLLASTONITE IS MEDIUM- TO FINE- GRAINED AND GRAY IN COLOR.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Wollastonite Ore
Diopside Gangue
Garnet Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.6259, 35.49999

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Sediments Are Intensely Folded.

Ore body information

  • Thickness 9.14M
    Length 2438.4M
    Width 121.92M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ELEVATORSKI, E.A., 1975, WOLLASTONITE, IN LEFOND, S.J., ED., INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND ROCKS (NONMETALLICS OTHER THAN FUELS): NEW YORK, AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGICAL, AND PETROLEUM ENGINEERS, P. 1227-1234

  • Reserve-Resource

    ELEVATORSKI, 1975.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit METASEDIMENTS CONTAIN WOLLASTONITE-GARNET-DIOPSIDE LAYERS. THE WOLLASTONITE-GARNET AND DIOPSIDE ROCK ARE INTERSTRATIFIED AND PRESENT IN ABOUT EQUAL AMOUNTS. THE OUTCROP IS 8000 FT LONG, 400 FT WIDE AND 10 TO 30 FT THICK.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1990 Orris, Greta 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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