Anyone ever seen one of these?

[Sample Pan Dan]

Hey guys was just looking thru some pictures of the area I have been exploring and prospecting. Found this metal tag nailed in the crack of a rock. The area had no sign of significance. I had hiked up to it looking at it simply because it was a rock outcrop on a relatively rock free hill....As I type this and think about the maps of my area, thinking possibly a USGS marker of old... Seems to me it might be a peak called out on a 1959 topo? Any thoughts please, and thank you.

Btw this is So. Cal.

Dan Dan the Drywallman

 

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[Gold Maven]

Yeah....I think that's the rock beside B83...

 

[RON (PA)]

I have never seen anything like that before. It looks like there is some faint writing on below the nail. Maybe if you e-mail the picture to USGS, National Forest Service, etc with info (place, time, GPS settings, etc) they may be able to tell you what it is and why it is there. The following link might help, too.
Please keep us updated as to what it is.

Survey marker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Yeah....I think that's the rock beside B83...

Ha Ha... We have a funny man here! Thanks for the chuckle Gold Maven
@ Ron thanks... Ya I might check locally and see.

 

[Hemisteve]

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Back on topic. That could be a assay marker from a mineral survey. i.e. Sample number B84.
Is it on top of the outcropping? If it is, maybe a surveyor used that spot as a turning point.

 

[soupfreak]

I have seen one once before, or at least a location where one did exist. This was in the Mojave just below the Desert Megaphone near Afton Canyon. It's definitely not a traditional benchmark.

The only things in that area that marker might have been related to would be the old railroad, BLM or the military.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

Thanks soupfreak,

Ya I'm starting to think, based on where it is, that its either a blm marker, though it would be off a couple hundred feet from what the maps show, or and old survey marker.. It is up hill from what would have been a main road back then

 

[Jason in Enid]

It's not very old. The rust streaking from the nail isn't very prevelant. If it was old, it would be a solid line to the bottom.

 

[Sample Pan Dan]

It's not very old. The rust streaking from the nail isn't very prevelant. If it was old, it would be a solid line to the bottom.

True, also the metal placard itself appears to be a galvanized aluminum, or something else alloyed with zinc or tin?