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Kelley Mine

Past Producer in Trinity county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, Lead, 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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035870
MRDS ID M023806
Record type Site
Current site name Kelley Mine
Related records 10287321

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.13555, 40.53263 (WGS84)
Elevation 1138
Relative position 1.5 MI. SE HAYFORK LANDING FIELD

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Hayfork(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hayfork(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

South Fork Trinity(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Shasta-Trinity National Forest(National Forest)

National Forest FS(Type of land area)

FS(Federal land areas administered by FS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Trinity

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031N 011W 17 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Lead Tertiary
Copper Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD OCCURED IN FREE STATE

Materials information

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

Analytical data

Result SOME OF ORE STATED TO CONTAIN $1000/TON IN GOLD. CON. ASSAY $600-$800/TON. FINAL TAILING ASSAYED $32-$40/TON AND WAS BEING SAVED FOR FURTHER TREATMENT.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.13555, 40.53263
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Thickness 2.13M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DIKE ROCK IS DESCRIBED AS VERY FINE-GRAINED, LIGHT GRAY TO DARK GRAY IN COLOR, AND WITHOUT VISABLE, ORIGINAL QUARTZ. DIKE DIPS STEEPLY AND IS ROUGHLY 20 FT. THICK. IT INTRUDES A SERIES OF CHERTS AND SLATES OF NEARLY VERTICAL DIP.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1932

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • IN 1939, OWNER EXTRACTED 11 TONS OF ORE FROM 30 FT. DRIFT, WHICH YIELDED CHUNK OF RETORTED AMALGAN WEIGHING 130 OZ. SAMPLING WAS PLANNED TO DETERMINE WHETHER DIKE WOULD YIELD COMMERCIAL GRADE OF ORE. NO SPECIFIC PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN ADIT LEVEL FOLLOWS DIKE FOR 600 FT. RAISE DRIVEN TO LEVEL ABOVE. 30 FT. DRIFT ON RICH ORE-BEARING VEIN AT AN ALTITUDE OF 30 FT. ABOVE MAIN LEVEL. SECOND LEVEL, 80 FT. HIGHER, DRIFT ON DIKE FOR 185 FT. IN SOUTHERLY DIRECTION. INCLUDES 60 FT. WINZE DRIVEN 20 DEGREES DOWN. 60 FT. RAISE TO SURFACE WITH STOPING.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1941, MINERAL RESOURCES OF TRINITY COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 37, NO. 1, P. 42-43

  • Production

    AVERILL (1941)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FLAT QUARTZ STRINGERS; ZONES ARE FEW INCHES TO 7 FT. IN THICKNESS, IN DIKE. RICH ORE-BEARING VEIN, 6 IN-2 FT. THICK. GOLD-BEARING SULFIDES OCCUR IN DIKE AT A DISTANCE FROM QTZ. STRINGERS
Deposit 11 UNPATENTED CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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