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Broken Hill

Past Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Iron, Sulfur
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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. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034387
MRDS ID M021157
Record type Site
Current site name Broken Hill
Related records 10237706

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.50748, 40.53263 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 1 1/2 MILES N. E. OF IGO, ON THE PROMINATE RIDGE, E. OF CLEAR CREEK.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Igo(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 031N 006W 23 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES ESTIMATED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Iron Tertiary
Sulfur Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.50748, 40.53263
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike NE
    Dip 90 DEG
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: HOST ROCK NEAR INTRUSIVE CONTACT WITH GREENSTONE; BRECCIAS; CONTACT METAMORPHISM OCCURS IN COUNTRY ROCKS ON BOTH SIDES OF MAIN VEIN.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Both
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Igo

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 CLAIMS; SINGLE 400 FT. ADIT CUT VEINS AT 150 AND 250 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C. V., 1933 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE: C. D. M. REPT 29 , P. 12

  • 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 , 154 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO OTHER INFORMATION FOUND.

Reporter information

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

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

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