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Gold and Nickel

Past Producer in Siskiyou county in California, United States with commodity Gold
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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. 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 10035376
MRDS ID M023145
Record type Site
Current site name Gold and Nickel
Related records 10238323

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.62944, 41.44012 (WGS84)
Elevation 1280
Relative position 2 MI. N. MOUNTAIN HOUSE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Siskiyou(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Gazelle Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Shasta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Shasta(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Siskiyou

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 042N;041N 007W;007W 35;02 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST. SW 1/4 35

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.62944, 41.44012
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIKES OF BASIC ROCK ALTERING TO SERPENTINE ASSOCIATED WITH SULFIDE DEPOSITS.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the production information

  • CHUNKS OF SULFIDE ORE HAVE BEEN SORTED OUT & PILED UP TO THE EXTENT OF 200 OR 300 TONS. NO PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • 45 FT. SHAFT. 1000 FT. TO SOUTH, NORTH ADIT DRIVEN 300 FT. IN SILICEOUS VEIN MATERIAL CONTAINING PYRITE. SOUTH ADIT DRIVEN 500 FT. IN VEIN MATERIAL. 300 FT. TO WEST, SW ADIT STARTS IN GOSSAN & ENTERS SILICEOUS MATERIAL NEAR FACE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1931, REDDING FIELD DIV. CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V.27, P. 34-35

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS QTZ. HEAVILY STAINED WITH IRON OXIDES. RESEMBLES GASSAN AND CONTAINS OCCASIONAL SPOTS OF PALE YELLOW AND BLACK SULFIDES. PROBABLY MOSTLY IRON COMPOUNDS, BUT PALEGREEN STAINING INDICATES NI MAY BE PRESENT. SOUTH OF ADIT, NUMEROUS OUTCROPS OCCUR FOR SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET WITH SPOTS OF GOSSAN AT INTERVALS. SLATE SHOWS IN SOUTH ADIT, STRIKE N25E, DIP 65W.
Deposit 200 ACRES, 10 CLAIMS AND SEVERAL OTHER GROUPS OF SIMILAR SIZE IN SAME AREA HELD BY DIFFERENT PERSON. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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