The Chuckwalla Wash Prospect is a copper, gold, and silver mine located in San Bernardino county, California.
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Mine Info
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Chuckwalla Wash Prospect MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Chuckwalla Wash Prospect
Commodity
Primary: Copper
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Location
State: California
County: San Bernardino
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Prospect
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: INITIAL SAMPLING SHOWS 26% OF ANALYSES AVERAGE .19% OZ/T AU WITH CU VALUES IN THE 1-5% RANGE. SOME BARITE CARRIES UP TO 102 OZ/T AG.
Materials
Ore: Covellite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Barite
Ore: Bornite
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): CLEAR ASSOCIATION BETWEEN HYDROTHERMAL HEMATITE AND GOLD
Comment (Location): N FLANK OF SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS, JUST SOUTH OF BANNCOCK SIDING ON THE SANTA FE RAILROAD. LAT/LONG IS FOR ONE OF THE PROSPECTS MARKED IN NE/4 OF SECTION 33.
Comment (Development): SANTA FE PACIFIC RECONNAISSANCE SAMPLING IN 1991, DRILLED BY ECHO BAY IN 1990, SANTA FE PACIFIC HAS DONE SAMPLING, GROUND MAGNETIC AND VLF RESISTIVITY SURVEYS.
Comment (Deposit): GENERALLY EW TRENDING MINERALIZED BELTS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY 100-300 FOOT ZONES OF NARROW CALCITE +/- QUARTZ VEINS
Comment (Geology): KNOWN COPPER-GOLD VEINS AT CHUCKWALLA ARE SIMILAR TO THOSE PERIPHERAL TO THE GOLD BRECCIA-PIPE AT COLOSSEUM.
References
Reference (Analytical Data): SANTA FE PACIFIC MINING, INC., INFORMATION SHEET
Reference (Deposit): SANTA FE PACIFIC MINING, INC., INFORMATION SHEE
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