Lincoln Clay Mine

Producer in Placer county in California, United States with commodity Kaolin
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. Land status
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10237229
MAS/MILS ID 0060619001
Record type Site
Current site name Lincoln Clay Mine
Alternate or previous names Lincoln Clay Produts Co

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Ore Body
Geographic coordinates: -121.30994, 38.91269 (WGS84)
Elevation 53
Location accuracy 100(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Lincoln(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 012 N 006 E 09 NE California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Kaolin Primary

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Gladding-Mc Bean And Co.
    ID 400556
    Home office California
    Year 1990

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MESA ID #0400556.

  • Deposit

    EMPLOYMENT.10.

  • Deposit

    CALIF. BULL. 99, P. 156.

  • Deposit

    CALIF. DIV. MINES AND GEOL. SPECIAL PUBLICATION 103, 1990.

  • Deposit

    LOCATED ALSO IN SW1/4 OF SE1/4 SECTION 4.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 22-FEB-1991 Lowe, Nathan T. U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Current status (per MSHA)

StatusAbandoned since 01/31/2014
MSHA mine ID0400556
Mine name (MSHA)GMcB Clay Products
Current operatorGladding McBean
Current controller (parent)Pacific Coast Building Products Inc
Mine typeSurface (Metal / non-metal)

MSHA cross-reference per the original MRDS record. Mine status and operator reflect MSHA's last published Mines export (February 2025); MSHA's public bulk feed has been unavailable since, so this may be out of date. See the Mine Data Retrieval System for current status.

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External references

Authoritative California resources

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