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Bully Hill

Past Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Land status
  13. Ownership information
  14. Production statistics
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10262643
MRDS ID W025217
MAS/MILS ID 0060890063
Record type Site
Current site name Bully Hill
Alternate or previous names Copper City, Rising Star
Related records 10111069

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -122.19689, 40.80125 (WGS84)
Elevation 396
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Minnesota Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Pit(hydrologic unit)

Upper Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Shasta-Trinity 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 Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 034 N 003 W 15 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Primary
Gold Primary
Silver Primary
Zinc Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Anhydrite Unknown
Azurite Unknown
Barite Unknown
Bornite Unknown
Chalcocite Unknown
Chalcopyrite Unknown
Copper Unknown
Covellite Unknown
Cuprite Unknown
Galena Unknown
Gold Unknown
Gypsum Unknown
Limonite Unknown
Malachite Unknown
Pyrite Unknown
Quartz Unknown
Silver Unknown
Sphalerite Unknown
Tennantite Unknown
Tetrahedrite Unknown
Vermiculite Unknown

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -122.19689, 40.80125
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N10E
    Dip 80E
    Thickness 12M
    Length 100M
    Width 100M
    Depth to top 20M
    Field Value
    MAS Matrix # 1
    MAS Column # 1
    Type of Orebody #1 SHEAR ZONE
    Shape of Orebody #1 LENTICULAR
    Type of Orebody #2 DISSEMINATED
    Shape of Orebody #2 TABULAR
    Type of Orebody #3 OTHER
    Shape of Orebody #3 MASSIVE
    Primary mode of Origin HYDROTHERMAL
    Primary Ore Control FAULTING
    Secondary Ore Control OTHER
    Degree of Wallrock Alter. MODERATE
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #1 SILICIFICATION
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #2 PYRITIZATION
    Type of Wallrock Alter. #3 OTHER
    Strike And Dip N10E:80E
    Minimum Depth to Top 1
    Avg. Thick. Unconsol. Mat. 10
    Date of Last Modification 830316
  • Area 86HA
    Field Value
    Total Surface Area (HA) 86
    Date of Last Modification 910418

Comments on the geologic information

  • OTHER G-TOB IS MASSIVE SULFIDE OTHER G-ORE IS SHEAR ZONE OTHER GEO-1 IS SUFATIDATION. OTHER L-DEF IS SHEAR ZONE
  • M-REC 01 REPRESENTS 80 PERCENT OF THE ROCKS THAT HAVE BEEN SILICIFIED M-REC 02 LIMONITE REPRESENTS 15 PERCENT OF THE MATERIAL IN THE SILICIFIED ROCK M-REC 03 PYRITIZATION VERY COMMON M-REC 04 HYDROUS MICA ALTERATION PRODUCT M-REC 05 SULFADATION PRODUCT ALSO M-REC 06 AND 07 PRIMARY SULFIDES ARE M-REC 8,9,10,11,12,13IN DESCENDING ORDER OF ABUNDANCE WITH SOME GOLD AND SILVER SECONDARY SULFIDES ARE M-REC 14,13,15,16,17,18,19 IN DESCENDING ORDER WITH SOME FREE GOLD AND SILVER

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Underground
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Large
Significant No
Discovery year 1862
Year of first production 1877

Mining district

District name East Shasta

Land status

Ownership category Unknown

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Western Mines Inc.
    Home office Canada
    Year 1978
  • Type Owner
    Owner S. C. M. Corp.
    Interest 100
    Home office New York
    Year 1978

Production statistics

  • Year 1877
    Description 640000 Dollars In Prescious Metals
  • Year 1901
    Description 5080000kg Cu; 99000 G Au; 12500000 G Ag 45000 Metric Tons Of Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 99000g
    Major Copper Copper 5080mt
    Major Silver Silver 12500000g
  • Year 1909
    Description 3.61 Cu; 7.83 Zn; 202 G Ag ; 3.34 G Au 100000 Metric Tons Of Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 3g/mt
    Major Silver Silver 202g/mt
    Major Zinc Zinc 8wt-pct
    Major Copper Copper 4wt-pct
  • Year 1922
    Description 20.9 Zn; 2.42 Cu; 33.7 G Ag; 0.94 G Au 14000 Metric Tons Of Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Gold Gold 1g/mt
    Major Silver Silver 34g/mt
    Major Copper Copper 2wt-pct
    Major Zinc Zinc 21wt-pct
  • Year 1927
    Description 1083000 G Au And 62802000 G Ag 526000 Metric Tons Of Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Silver Silver 62802000g
    Major Gold Gold 1083000g
  • Year 1927
    Description 22130000 Kg Cu And 1391000 Kg Zn 526000 Metric Tons Of Ore
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major Zinc Zinc 1391mt
    Major Copper Copper 22130mt

Comments on the production information

  • HPREC 001 IS FIRST PRODUCTION HPREC 002 IS FIRST RECORDED PRODUCTION HPREC 003 IS GRADE OF ORE PUT THROUGH PROPERTIES SMELTER HPREC 004 IS GRADE GEN.ELEC.USED ELECTRULYSIS ON FOR ZN REC. HPREC 005 AND 006 IS TOTAL PRODUCTION FROM BULLY HILL, RISING STAR AND COPPER CITY MINES FROM 1901 TO 1927

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 75 PERCENT PROBABILITY IS OBTAINED FROM COMPANY DATA AND WAS MADE IN 1977. THESE FIGURES REPRESENT ORE AT BULLY HILL ONLY 50 PERCENT PROBABILITY ESTIMATES WERE MADE ON THE PRESENCE OF GEOLOGICALLY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. THESE ESTIMATES ARE FOR THE BULLY HILL ORE BODY ONLY AND CONSIDERABLY HIGHER TONNAGES COULD BE AVAILABLE FROM THE RISING STAR ORE BODY IN ADDITION TO MORE ORE PRESENT IN THE COPPER CITY DEPOSIT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF JOUR MINES & GEOL V35 NO 2 APR 1939 PP 174-5

  • Deposit

    ALSO SECTS 16 21 & 22

  • Deposit

    BULLY HILL MINE:IN, CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY,

  • Deposit

    VOLUME 35,P.174-175.

  • Deposit

    ALBERS AND ROBERTSON,1961,GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF EAST

  • Deposit

    SHASTA COPPER ZINC DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA:U.S.G.S.PROFESSIONAL

  • Deposit

    PAPER 338.

  • Deposit

    COPPER IN CALIFORNIA;CALIF. DIVISION OF MINES BULL. 144, P.

  • Deposit

    78, 1948

  • Deposit

    ESTIMATED RESERVES,BULLY HILL MINE,COMPANY DATA,1976-WESTERN

  • Deposit

    MINES INC.,CANADA

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit REFER TO MILS FORM: COPPER IS IN SULFIDE FORM. REFER TO MILS FORM: ZINC IS IN SULFIDE FORM

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 28-APR-1994 Wetzel, Nicholas U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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