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Black Spider

Past Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Iron
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Public Land Survey System information
  6. Commodities
  7. Materials information
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034379
MRDS ID M021149
Record type Site
Current site name Black Spider
Alternate or previous names Jones

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.47553, 40.61457 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 MILES NE OF SHASTA

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Redding(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 032N 005W 19 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES ESTIMATED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary
Iron Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SOME HIGH-GRADE GOLD ORE, MOSTLY LOW GRADE

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metavolcanic Rock > Mafic Metamorphic Rock > Greenstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.47553, 40.61457
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 63 E
    Dip 72 NW
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 48.77M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN ASSOCIATED WITH FINE GRAINED MAFIC DIKES AND ONE FELSIC DIKE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Production years UNTIL 1930'S

Comments on the production information

  • LITTLE ORE EXTRACTED; NO PRODUCTION RECORDED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 32.376HA

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 SHAFTS, 460 FT AND 40 FT CONNECTED BY 80 FT DRIFT, MAIN ADIT 420 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1933 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: C.D.M. REPT. 29 , P. 11

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1916 , SHASTA COUNTY: C.M.B. REPT. 14 , P 779

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894 , TWELFTH REPT. OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: C.M.B. REPT. 12 , P 246

  • Deposit

    LYDON, P.A. AND O'BRIEN, J.C., 1974 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY, CAL.: C.D.M.G., COUNTY REPT. 6 , P. 111 .

  • Production

    LYDON, P.A. AND O'BRIEN, 1974

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1978 Tatkin, T.; Albers, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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