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Blue Bell Mine

Producer in Lassen 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. Alteration
  9. Mineral occurrence model information
  10. Host and associated rocks
  11. Nearby scientific data
  12. Geologic structures
  13. Ore body information
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109228
MRDS ID M009064
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Bell Mine
Related records 10139501

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.8855, 40.99736 (WGS84)
Elevation 1646

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Lassen(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Silva Flat Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Eagle Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Susanville(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Pit(hydrologic unit)

Upper Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Lassen

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 037N 009E 36 CENTER OF S2 California

Comments on the location information

  • SE1/4 SW1/4. ON SW SLOPE OF HAYDEN HILL.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD IS FINELY DIVIDED

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Rhyolite Is Altered

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 104
USGS model code 25a
Deposit model name Hot-spring Au-Ag
Mark3 model number 45

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Rhyolite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Rhyolite Is Brecciated

Ore body information

  • General form VEIN
    Strike E-W
    Dip 60N

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: DEPOSIT IS A FILLING OF SOFT UNCONSOLIDATED FAULT BRECCIA OF ADJACENT WALL ROCK, IN FRACTURES PENETRATING THE RHYOLITE TUFFS COMPOSING THE HILL. FINELY DIVIDED GOLD, MUCH OF IT OXIDIZED, OCCURS IN THE VEINS. MAIN VEIN COURSES E AND W AND DIPS N ABOUT 60 DEG.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1880

Mining district

District name Hayden Hill

Comments on the production information

  • $60,000 PRODUCED FROM A POCKET IN THE GLORY HOLE. TOTAL PRODUCTION ESTIMATED AT $100,000

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Surface/Underground
    Overall depth 48.77M

Comments on the workings information

  • OLD WORKINGS CONSISTED OF 35' DEEP GLORY-HOLE WITH SHAFT BELOW IT. 50' VERTICAL SHAFT IS BEING SUNK SOUTH OF THE GLORY HOLE (1920)

Comments on development

  • PROPERTY WORKED INTERMITTENTLY TO 1910

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894, GOLD - LASSEN COUNTY, IN 12TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 148.

  • Deposit

    HILL, J.M., 1915, SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 594, P. 30-38.

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B., 1919, LASSEN COUNTY, IN 25TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 231.

  • Deposit

    LAIZURE, C.MCK., 1921, LASSEN COUNTY, IN 17TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 508.

  • Deposit

    BURNETT, J.L., 1990, 1989 CALIFORNIA MINING REVIEW: CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY V. 43, NO. 10, P. 219-224.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit MAIN VEIN IS INTERSECTED BY SEVERAL CROSS VEINS
Deposit SEE ALSO MRDS RECORD W024033

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere W. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1991 Peterson, Jocelyn A. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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