Dos Palmas is in the Orocopia Mountains northeast of the Salton Sea. Some mining was done here in the 1890s, and the area has been prospected since. Several narrow gold-quartz veins occur in gneiss, schist, and granitic rocks. There have been considerable shearing and faulting in the area; the San Andreas fault zone extends southeast along the side of the Salton Sea.
Mines
Charity, Dos Palmas, Fish, Free Coinage, Messenger.
Bibliography
Merrill, F. J. H., 1919, Riverside County, gold: California Min. Bur. Rept. 15, p. 541.
