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St. Jude

Past Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc
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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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034485
MRDS ID M021280
Record type Site
Current site name St. Jude
Alternate or previous names Phidadelphia and Roosevelt, Vogt

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.68138, 40.71791 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 3 MILES NW OF FRENCH GULCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

French Gulch(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 033N 007W 17 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES ESTIMATED; SECTION PROJECTED.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Copper Secondary
Lead Secondary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD ASSOCIATED WITH ARGENTIFEROUS GALENA AND MINOR CHALCOPYRITE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Thrust Fault.

Analytical data

Result GOLD TO SILVER RATIO 3.5:1
Result GOLD FROM LENSES VALUED AT $100/TON ( 1933 )

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.68138, 40.71791
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES
    Strike N 70 E
    Dip N
    Thickness 0.51M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: 3 PARALLEL VEINS; THRUST FAULT AT SHALLOW DEPTH OFFSETS VEINS; DEPOSIT IN DIORITE PORPHYRY UNDERLAIN BY FLAT - LYING SLATE; LENSES IN THE VEIN PRODUCE HIGH - GRADE GOLD ORE; LENSES ARE A FEW INCHES TO 4 FT. WIDE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name French Gulch

Comments on the production information

  • NO PRODUCTION SINCE 1946 ; EACH LENS PRODUCES 15 TO 30 TONS ORE.

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT 350 FT., DRIFTS 600 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C. V., 1933 , GOLD LODES OF THE REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: CDM REPT. 29 , P. 43 - 44

  • Deposit

    GOODWIN, J. G., 1957 , LEAD AND ZINC IN CAL.: CJMG, V. 53 , P. 693

  • Deposit

    LYDON, P. A. AND OBRIEN, J. C., 1974 , MINES AND MIN. RES OF SHASTA COUNTY, CAL.: CDMG COUNTY REPT. 6 , 154 P.

  • Production

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

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit QUARTZ VEIN DEPOSIT
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

Beyond USGS

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