1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Butterfly

Past Producer in Madera county in California, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
Sections on this page
  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. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035056
MRDS ID M022186
Record type Site
Current site name Butterfly
Alternate or previous names Bumble Bee, Sunset
Related records 10114835

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.76208, 37.30604 (WGS84)
Elevation 472
Relative position 1.5 MI S INDIAN HILL

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madera(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Horsecamp Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Shaver Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fresno River(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Madera

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 020E 23 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST W 1/2 SW 1/4

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.76208, 37.30604
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 50 W
    Dip 50 NE
    Thickness 1.22M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1883

Comments on the workings information

  • 4 ADITS ON BUTTERFLY CLAIM, NO. 1 IS 150 FT. LONG W/200 FT OF DRIFTS AND A 98 FT. WINZE, NO. 2 IS 500 FT. LONG W/100 FT. OF DRIFTS AND A 40 FT. WINZE. NO. 3 160 FT. LONG, NO. 4 200 FT. LONG. ON BUMBLE BEE CLAIM, SURFACE CUTS. ON CONTACT CLAIM, 300 FT. ADIT W/160 FT. OF DRIFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MCLAUGHLIN, R. P. AND BRADLEY, W. W., 1914 , MADERA COUNTY: REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, V. 14 , P. 540 - 541

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN, 18 IN. - 4 FT. THICK
Deposit 3 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. DISCOVERED IN 1883 ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.