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Hickey

Past Producer in Siskiyou 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. Land status
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10086634
MRDS ID X025768
Record type Site
Current site name Hickey
Related records 10166203

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.08945, 41.25651 (WGS84)
Elevation 1585
Relative position IN WHITES GULCH 3 MI SE SAWYERS BAR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Siskiyou(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tanners Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Hoopa(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Salmon(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Klamath 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 Siskiyou

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Humboldt 039 011N 14 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC. LAND IS UNSURVEYED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS MADE SOME TIME PRIOR TO 1935 EST. $3.37/TON IN AU W/$20.67/OZ. PRICE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 1.22M

Comments on the geologic information

  • DECOMPOSED HOST ROCK FM.

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

  • PRODUCTION YEAR(S) EST. FROM REFERENCES. 75 TONS OF ORE YIELDED $35/TON. NO OTHER PRODUCTION INFO. FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS, LONGEST 400 FT. MILLSITE.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1935, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 31, NO. 3, P. 287-8, PL. 4

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C.A., 1925, SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 21, NO. 4, P. 443

  • Production

    LOGAN (1925)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NETWORK OF STRINGERS, EACH ABOUT 1 IN. THICK, IN LOOSE DISINTEGRATED MASS OF QUARTZ FRAGMENTS MIXED W/CLAY TO DEPTH OF AT LEAST 100 FT. ORE OCCURS IN BUNCHES, SOMETIMES WORTH $200/TON (1925).
Deposit 6 CLAIMS. ACCORDING TO AVERILL (1935) A 2500 WORD REPORT ON THIS PROPERTY BY L. DUBOIS IS ON FILE AT THE REDDING OFFICE OF THE CALIF. DIV. OF MINES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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