Mine detail: Chocolate Drop Group

Previously called 'ChipmunkBig BearChipmunk and LaskinChocolate Drop MineDixie QueenAlaskanBlack JackWar EagleMckinneyEbony GroupTadpoleBlack Point'

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Location

Lat / long: 33.40756, -114.9319

Resource(B)

Tertiary: Barium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron, Manganese
Other material: Barite, Calcite, Fluorite, Limonite, Psilomelane
Discovery year: 1916

Production

Operation type: Surface
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1917

Geology

References

MAS60250008
DEP10187755
Reference{Deposit:: CALIF. STATE MINING BUR. BULLETIN 76, 1918, P. 34-35.}{Deposit:: CALIF. STATE MINING BUR. REPORT, V. 38, 1926, P. 264-265.}{Deposit:: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOL., V. 38, 1942, P. 128-129.}{Deposit:: CALIF. DIV. MINES BULLETIN 125, 1943, P. 118.}{Deposit:: CALIF. DIV. MINES AND GEOL BULLETIN 152, 1950, P. 74-76.}{Deposit:: U.S. BUREAU OF MINES RI 5579, 1960, P. 33.}{Deposit:: CALIF. DIV. MINES COUNTY REPORT 7. 1977, P. 73.}{Deposit:: ALSO IN N 1/2 SEC. 18.}
ReporterDeino, Al