The Nickel Plate Mine is a gold mine located in San Bernardino county, California at an elevation of 1,240 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 1,240 Feet (378 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 34.2742, -114.27670
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Nickel Plate Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Nickel Plate Mine
Secondary: Nickel Plate
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Secondary: Copper
Secondary: Silver
Location
State: California
County: San Bernardino
Land Status
Land ownership: BLM Administrative Area
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Type: Located Claim
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Underground
Mining Method: 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
Not available
Materials
Unknown: Hematite
Unknown: Chrysocolla
Comments
Comment (Geology): COUNTRY ROCK IS A HIGHLY-FRACTURED, CHLORITIC GNEISS IN FALUT CONTACT WITH TERTIARY VOLCANIC AND SEDIMENTARY ROCKS. MINERALIZED ZONES ARE ALTERED QUARTZ MONZONITES CONTAINING QUARTZ, FELDSPARS, HEMATITE, SERICITE, WITH TRACE AMOUNTS OF MUSCOVITE, CHLORITE, ILMENITE, MAGNETITE, LEUCOXENE, SPHENE, LIMONITE, ADATITE, AND ZIRCON.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): MATRIX NO. 1 REPRESENTS TONNAGE AND GRADE COMPUTED FROM THE EASTERNMOST OF TWO ZONES DEVELOPED IN THE MINE. MATRIX NO. 2 REPRESENTS TONNAGE AND GRADE COMPUTED FROM THE WESTERNMOST OF TWO ZONES DEVELOPED IN THE MINE.
Comment (Deposit): THIS PROPERTY WAS INVESTIGATED IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE WHIPPLE MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS STUDY AREA (BLM) IN 1980. BACKUP INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND IN THE WFOC MINERAL PROPERTY FILES. U.S. BUR. MINES STATISTICAL FILES SHOW PRODUCTION FOR THE YEARS 1929, 1932, 1933, AND 1941.
References
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 39-85, 1985, P. 36-41.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 50-87, 1987, APPENDIX
Reference (Deposit): B, NO. 33, P. 97.
Reference (Deposit): CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOL., V. 49, 1953, TABULATED LIST,
Reference (Deposit): NO. 151, P. 49-50.
Reference (Deposit): U.S. BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 29-82, 1982, APPENDIX
Reference (Deposit): A, NO. 32, P. 32.
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