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Cardinal Gold Mining Company Claims

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Iron, Arsenic, Copper, Zinc
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Land status
  15. Workings at the site
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10086462
MRDS ID X023739
Record type Site
Current site name Cardinal Gold Mining Company Claims
Alternate or previous names Wilshire-Bishop Creek, Rocky Point

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -118.60372, 37.22494 (WGS84)
Elevation 2774
Relative position 1 MI N LAKE SABRINA ON MIDDLE FORK OF BISHOP CK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Thompson(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bishop(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Crowley Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Inyo 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 Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 008S 031E 29 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC. LOC. PROJECTED; LAND UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Iron Tertiary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Copper Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ORE ASSAYED $10-12/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Monzonite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -118.60372, 37.22494
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Haggerty Fault, Strike N60e, Dip 45 Se, Displaces Orebodies 130 Ft. To Nw. Also Displaces Granitic Sills That Cut Ore Bodies

Ore body information

  • Strike N55W
    Dip 70NE
    Thickness 4.88M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fracture Zone

Comments on the geologic information

  • INTRUSIVE MONZONITE-GRANITE, 800 FT. WIDE. CUTS QUARTZITE. CONTACT STRIKES N50W, DIPS 60SW

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • APPROX. 99% OF ORE WAS GOLD, WITH A LITTLE COPPER, SILVER. RATIO OF CONCENTRATION IN MILL WAS 30:1, WITH A RECOVERY OF 92%. NO OTHER PRODUCTION RECORDS FOUND.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 274.32M

Comments on the workings information

  • 600 FT. SHAFT, FIRST 100 FT. VERTICAL, REMAINING 500 FT. INCLINED 68 NW. LEVELS AT 60, 200, 300, 400, 500 AND 600 FT. 1400 FT. OF DRIFTS ON 200 FT. LEVEL DRIVEN TO NW. ABOUT 4 MILES OF DRIFTS AND RAISES.

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. 39-40

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B. AND SAMPSON, R.J., 1938, MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 34, NO. 4, P. 389, 391

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B., 1926, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY, CALIF: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 22, NO. 4, P. 474

  • Deposit

    GOODWIN, J.G., 1957, LEAD AND ZINC IN CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 53, NOS. 3 & 4, P. 459

  • Production

    TUCKER AND SAMPSON (1938), GOODWIN (1957)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEINS, AVG. 8 FT. THICK. FREE GOLD AND SULFIDES. 4 ORE SHOOTS, 20-300 FT. LONG, 6-16 FT. THICK
Deposit 34 CLAIMS, 14 PATENTED (ROCKY POINT GROUP) ; 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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