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Golden Chariot

Past Producer in Shasta 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. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077539
MRDS ID W025238
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Chariot
Alternate or previous names Gold Chariot
Related records 10165407

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.47803, 40.56096 (WGS84)
Elevation 335
Relative position 8 MILES W OF REDDING

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Redding(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 031N 005W 06,07;01 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES ESTIMATED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :UNDETERMINED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.47803, 40.56096
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Dip 90
    Thickness 1.22M
    Length 60.96M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VERTICAL VEIN EXPOSED FOR 8 FEET, INTERSECTS WITH SECOND VEIN NEAR PORTAL OF MAIN ADIT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Shasta

Comments on the workings information

  • MAIN ADIT 165 FT., SURFACE CUTS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1939 , MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY: C.D.M. REPT. 35 , P. 137

  • Deposit

    LYDON, P.A. AND O'BRIEN, J.C., 1974 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY, CAL.: C.D.M.G., COUNTY REPT. 6 , 154 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO OTHER INFORMATION FOUND.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1978 Tatkin, T.; Albers, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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Authoritative California resources

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