Santa Teresa Mine

Past Producer in Santa Clara county in California, United States with commodity Mercury
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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Land status
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10140551
MRDS ID M055624
MAS/MILS ID 0060850113
Record type Site
Current site name Santa Teresa Mine
Alternate or previous names Santa Teresa
Related records 10040757

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -121.81413, 37.22072 (WGS84)
Elevation 256
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Santa Clara(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Santa Teresa Hills(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Coyote(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 008 S 001 E 24 NENESW California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Mercury Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -121.81413, 37.22072

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name New Almaden

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Reference information

Bibliographic references

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-MAY-1990 Western Field Operations Center (WFOC) 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.