New Deal Mine

Past Producer in San Bernardino county in California, United States with commodities Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Silica
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. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mineral rights holdings
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10140377
MRDS ID M020392
MAS/MILS ID 0060710040
Record type Site
Current site name New Deal Mine
Alternate or previous names Owl's Head Mine, Owl Hole Mine - 0060711671, Enna
Related records 10188841, 10109408

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -116.66477, 35.65029 (WGS84)
Elevation 770
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Bernardino(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Owl Lake(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Owlshead Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trona(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 San Bernardino

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 018 N 003 E 16 SESENW California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Aluminum Critical Tertiary
Iron Primary
Manganese Critical Tertiary
Silica Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Calcite Unknown
Hematite Unknown
Jasper Unknown
Psilomelane Unknown
Pyrolusite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -116.66477, 35.65029

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N40W
    Dip 85S
    Thickness 10M
    Length 40M
    Width 12M
    Depth to top 3M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 BRECCIA FILL
    Shape of Orebody #1 IRREGULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 SHEAR ZONE
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Secondary mode of Origin CONT METASOMATIC
    Primary Ore Control IGNEOUS
    Secondary Ore Control FRACTURING
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. SLIGHT
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 BLEACHING
    Strike And Dip N40W:85S
    Minimum Depth to Top 1
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 3
    Min. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 1
    Date of Last Modification 830519
  • Area 10HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 10
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface-Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1914
Year of first production 1915

Mineral rights holdings

Type of mineral rights Located Claim

Land status

Ownership category State

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Of California
    Interest 100
    Home office California
    Year 1975

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. DIV. MINES BULLETIN 152, 1950, P. 203-205.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5579, 1960, P. 43.

  • Deposit

    CALZIA, J.P., 1974, IGNEOUS GEOLOGY OF A PART OF THE SOUTH-

  • Deposit

    EAST OWLSHEAD MOUNTAINS, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALI-

  • Deposit

    FORNIA: M.S. THESIS, UNIV. SOUTHERN CALIF., 77 P.

  • Deposit

    U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 14-85, 1985, TABLE 1,

  • Deposit

    NO. 19, P. 17.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 24-MAY-1993 Mcmahan U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

External references

Authoritative California resources

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