1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Mountain Laurel

Past Producer in Siskiyou county in California, United States with commodity Gold
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Land status
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10086635
MRDS ID X025769
Record type Site
Current site name Mountain Laurel
Related records 10189605

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -123.10529, 41.25956 (WGS84)
Elevation 1219
Relative position 3.2 MI. S. 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 039N 011W 10 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result ASSAYED $10/TON IN AU. 1.5% SULFIDES VALUED FROM $80-$120/TON

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) -123.10529, 41.25956
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N-N40E
    Dip 5-60SE
    Thickness 5.49M

Comments on the geologic information

  • BLACK, SLATY GRAPHITIC SCHISTS HOST ORE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Liberty

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • PRINCIPAL PRODUCTION IN LATER YEARS BY YREKA MINING AND MILLING CO. UP TO 1906, AND BY CALIFORNIA CONSOLIDATED 1906-1910. 270 FT. FROM PORTAL OF MJ ADIT, 60 TONS OF ORE YIELDED $7000. ABOUT 2300 TONS WERE STOPED FROM SAME LEVEL. ON 100 FT. LEVEL, 8800 TONS OF ORE RECOV., AVG. $18-40/TON. BECAUSE OF LENGTH OF TIME SINCE MINE DISCOVERED, VARIOUS COMPANIES INVOLVED, LOSS OF RECORDS AND OPERATION OF MILL IN CONJUNCTION WITH NEARBY KLAMATH MINE, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DETERMINE ITS OUTPUT. PROBABLY OVER $600000 FROM ORE AVG. $8.50 OR BETTER PER TON. NO OTHER INFORMATION FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • 6 ADIT LEVELS W/NUMEROUS WORKINGS. FOR DETAILS, SEE LOGAN (1925)

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: MINING & MILLING COST WAS $3.25/TON

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    IRELAND, W., JR., 1888, REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 8, P. 619-620

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C.A., 1925, SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 21, NO. 4, P. 451

  • Production

    LOGAN (1925)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN, 4 IN.-18 FT. THICK, HIGHLY BRECCIATED AND FRIABLE QTZ.
Deposit IDLE SINCE 1922. PATENTED ; 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

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.