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Pay Master

Past Producer in San Bernardino county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
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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 10035788
MRDS ID M023691
Record type Site
Current site name Pay Master
Alternate or previous names Whitney
Related records 10212599

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -115.89918, 35.19973 (WGS84)
Elevation 573
Relative position 7 MI. NNW SUMMIT OF OLD DAD MTN.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

San Bernardino(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Seventeenmile Point(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Ivanpah(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Kingman(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mojave(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Mojave National Preserve(National Preserve)

National Preserve NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California San Bernardino

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 013N 010E 22,23 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result HIGH-GRADE ORE FOUND 150 FT. ABOVE TUNNEL LEVEL & SHIPMENTS TO SMELTER CARRIED $100/TON IN GOLD. ADDITIONAL GRADES FOR VARIOUS LEVEL WORKINGS IN TUCKER & SAMPSON (1931).

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -115.89918, 35.19973
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 40-50NW

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1900

Mining district

District name Solo

Comments on the production information

  • $20,000 IN GOLD SAID TO HAVE BEEN RECOVERD FROM THE DISCOVERY VEIN. NO OTHER PRODUCTION RECORDS FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • MOST OF WORKINGS LIE ALONG 3 VEINS. INCLUDE CROSSCUT ADIT DRIVEN S35E FOR 950 FT., SEVERAL HUNDRED FT. OF DRIFTS. CROSSCUT ENCOUNTERS SIDEWINDER VEIN AT 420 FT., PAYMASTER VEIN AT 748 FT. FROM PORTAL. SIDEWINDER VEIN FOLLOWED NE BY 85-FT. DRIFT, BUT NO ORE WAS MINED FROM HERE. A DRIFT FOLLOWS PAYMASTER VEIN FOR 240 FT. SW. ORE HERE HAS BEEN STOPED TO SURFACE, A SLOPE DISTANCE OF 275 FT. 465-FT. DRIFT FOLLOWS THE VEIN TO THE NE AND IS ALSO APPENDED TO STOPES. UNDER-GROUND WORKINGS TOTAL ABOUT 2000 FT. SURFACE WORKINGS EXPOSED DISCOVERY VEIN FOR 700 FT. ALONG STRIKE. ALSO INCLINED SHAFTS AND STOPES, THE DEEPEST BEING 150 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    WRIGHT, L.A. AND OTHERS, 1953, MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 49, NOS. 1&2, P. 78-79.

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B., AND SAMPSON, R. J., 1931, GOLD-SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIF.: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 27, P. 329-331

  • Production

    WRIGHT (1953) TUCKER & SAMPSON (1931)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS, 200-300 FT. APART, 2-4 FT. THICK, AND SEVERAL HUNDRED FT. LONG.
Deposit 5 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1979 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.

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