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Standard

Past Producer in Mono county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Silver
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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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10101177
MRDS ID C010447
Record type Site
Current site name Standard
Related records 10140066

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.01014, 38.2002 (WGS84)
Elevation 2633
Relative position 1 MI. N SUGARLOAF MT.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mono(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Bodie(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Bridgeport(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Walker Lake(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Mono Lake(hydrologic unit)

Mono-Owens Lakes(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Mono

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 004N 027E 16,21 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Analytical data

Result ASSAYS FROM MINE $5.43 AU/TON, $0.35 AG/TON

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.01014, 38.2002
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form SEAMS, PINCH-SWELL
    Strike N - S
    Dip 70

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Bodie

Comments on the production information

  • LARGEST PRODUCER IN THE BODIE DIST. FOR MORE DATA ON MILLING COSTS & PRODUCTION VALUES, SEE EAKLE & MCLAUGHLIN ( 1917 ) P. 154 - 157 . NO OTHER PRODUCTION RECORDS FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • MILL, 250 - TON CYANIDE PLANT. MOST WORK CARRIED ON THROUGH STANDARD AND LENT SHAFTS, THESE SHAFTS BEING 1200 FT. DEEP. DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS SUSPENDED ABOUT 1917 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W. B., 1927 , MONO COUNTY: REPORT 23 OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST; CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 390 - 391 .

  • Deposit

    EAKLE, A. S., AND MCLAUGHLIN, R. P., 1917 , MONO COUNTY: REPORT 15 OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 150 - 159 .

  • Deposit

    ERIC, J. C., 1948 , TABULATION OF COPPER DEPOSITS IN CALIFORNIA IN COPPER IN CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES BULLETIN 144 , P. 274 .

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W. B., AND SAMPSON, R. J., 1940 , MINERAL RESOURCES OF MONO COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 36 , NO. 2 , P. 137 - 138 , PL. 1 .

  • Production

    TUCKER ( 1927 ) EAKLE & MCLAUGHLIN ( 1917 )

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit COMPRISES 20 PATENTED AND 14 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. MINE WAS TAKEN OVER BY TREADWELL-YUKON COMPANY, LTD. OF SAN FRANCISCO IN 1929 . ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit PARALLEL VEINS, AVG. 1 FT. THICK, AVG. 30 FT. APART.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1979 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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