Queen Bee No 1 Claim

Producer in Santa Clara 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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10111039
MRDS ID W025094
Record type Site
Current site name Queen Bee No 1 Claim
Related records 10213905

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.45713, 37.38325 (WGS84)
Elevation 683
Relative position ON THE W. END OF THE RIDGE BETWEEN JONES AND BEAUREGARDE CREEKS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Clara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Boardman(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Santa Clara

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 006S 005E 29 California

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATED IN SW 1/4 SECTION 29

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Manganese Critical Primary

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE GRADE 25 PERCENT MANGANESE

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.45713, 37.38325

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NW
    Dip 65 SW TO VERTICAL
    Length 30.48M
    Width 1.83M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: MANGANESE IS MAINLY STOCKWORK IN WHITE CHERT, BUT SOME ORE IS MASSIVE. THE ORE BED STRIKES N.W, DIPS 65 S.W TO VERTICAL, IS 100 FT LONG, WITH MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 6 FT. WALLS CONVERGE DOWNWARD, SO NOT MUCH ORE EXPECTED AT DEPTH. GRADE DECREASES GRADUALLY TO THE S.E.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEO., V. 50 , NO. 2 , APR. 1954 , P. 415

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 152 1950 PP. 262 - 263

  • Deposit

    U.S.B.M. R.I. 5254

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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