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Confidence-Mendocino

Past Producer in Inyo 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. 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 10036099
MRDS ID M024137
Record type Site
Current site name Confidence-Mendocino
Alternate or previous names Confidence
Related records 10211776

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -116.45254, 35.87388 (WGS84)
Elevation 792
Relative position 2.2 MI W. IBEX PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Ibex Spring(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Owlshead Mountains(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Trona(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Death Valley-Lower Amargosa(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Death Valley National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
San Bernardino 021N 005E 32,33 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST. LOC. EST. FROM DESCRIPTION IN REFERENCES THEY INDICATE INCORRECT COORDINATES

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -116.45254, 35.87388
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N30W
    Dip 40NE
    Thickness 18.29M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the production information

  • A SMALL AMOUNT OF HIGH-GRADE AU ORE WAS PRODUCED IN 1934.

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS, 175 AND 375 FT. LONG ON CONFIDENCE VEIN, WITH 200 FT. VERTICAL INTERVAL. RAISES, STOPES, OPEN CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORMAN, L.A. JR. AND STEWART, RICHARD M., 1951, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY V. 47, NO. 1, P. 40, 141

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B. AND SAMPSON, R.J., 1938, MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 34, NO. 4, P. 393

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B., 1926, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY, CALIF: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 22, NO. 4, P. 468-469

  • Production

    NORMAN AND STEWART (1951)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SERIES OF PARALLEL VEINS. 2 MOST PROMINANT ARE CONFIDENCE, 40 FT. THICK, AND MENDOCINO, 60 FT. THICK
Deposit 2 PATENTED CLAIMS ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

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