The Potholes Placer is a gold mine located in Imperial county, California.
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Mine Info
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Potholes Placer MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Potholes Placer
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Imperial
District: Chocolate Mountains
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: Y
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
Name: Gravel
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Holocene
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Not available
Comments
Comment (Production): TOTAL YIELD PRODUCED $2,000,000. PLACER MINING AS EARLY AS 1780.
Comment (Deposit): IN QUATERNARY GRAVEL OF A CANYON FOLLOWING N10W TRENDING FAULT. SOURCE MAY BE THREE C'S DEPOSIT. THERE IS NO DIRECT DRAINAGE TO POTHOLES NOW BUT COULD HAVE BEEN IN HOLOCENE, PLEISTOCENE.
Comment (Geology): FLANKING RIDGES UNDERLAIN BY TERT BRECCIA. E SIDE OF CANYON UNDERLAIN BY PRE-TERT GRANITE.
Comment (Location): ADJACENT TO AND UNDERLYING ALL AMERICAN CANAL.
References
Reference (Deposit): MORTON, P.K., 1977, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION MINES AND GEOLOGY, COUNTY REPORT NO. 7, P. 58.
Reference (Deposit): SAMPSON, R.J., AND TUCKER, W.B., 1942, MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 38, NO. 2, P. 124-5.
Reference (Other Database): CIMRI
California Gold
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