Mine detail: Los Angeles Chemical Company Clay Property

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Location

Lat / long:

36.44998, -116.42587

Resource(N)

Primary:	Bentonite, Fullers Earth
Ore:	Bentonite, Chlorite, Illite, Montmorillonite, Saponite
Orebody form:	LENSES
Discovery year:	1917

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
First production started:	1918

Geology

Host type:	Lake Sediments
Alteration processes:	Deposit Formed By Alteration Of Tuffaceous Playa Lake Beds

References

MRDS	M241768
DEP	10046583
Reference	{Deposit:: PAPKE, K.G., 1970, NBMG BULL 76, P. 32-34.}{Deposit:: CORNWALL, H., 1972, NBMG BULL 77, P. 35.}{Deposit:: COUCH & CARPENTER, 1943, NBMG BULL NO. 38, P. 117.}{Deposit:: KRAL, V.E., 1951, NBMG BULL 50, P. 13-16}{Deposit:: ARCIENEGA, V.M., 1926, ENG. & MIN. JOUR., VOL. 121, P. 408.}
Reporter	La Pointe, D.D. (Tingley, J.V.)