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Grass Valley District - Remainder

Past Producer in Nevada county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Tungsten
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Mineral occurrence model information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Bibliographic references

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 60001024
MRDS ID MP90013
Record type District
Current site name Grass Valley District - Remainder

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.03663, 39.21739 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Nevada(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Grass Valley(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Yuba City(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Bear(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Nevada

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Tungsten Critical Secondary

Mineral occurrence model information

Model code 273
USGS model code 36a
Deposit model name Low-sulfide Au-quartz vein
Mark3 model number 27

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.03663, 39.21739
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure name THRUST FAULTING
Structure description MINOR THRUST FAULTS.

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault/fracture

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Discovery year 1848
Year of first production 1850

Mining district

District name GRASS VALLEY DISTRICT

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION
    Year 1929
  • Type Owner
    Owner EMPIRE-STAR MINES CO.
  • Type Owner
    Owner IDAHO-MARYLAND MINES CORP.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W.B., 1970, GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 93, 186 P.

  • Deposit

    KOSCHMANN, A.H., AND BERGENDAHL, M.H., 1968, PRINCIPAL GOLD-PRODUCING DISTRICTS OF THE UNITED STATES: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 610, 283 P.

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C. A., 1941, SACRAMENTO FIELD DISTRICT, MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEVADA COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 37, NO. 3, P. 374-408.

  • Deposit

    BLISS, J.D., AND JONES, G.M., 1988, MINERALOGIC AND GRADE-TONNAGE INFORMATION ON LOW-SULFIDE AU-QUARTZ VEINS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 88-229, 99 P.

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

  • NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION — renamed to Newmont Corporation (2019)
    Renamed from Newmont Mining Corporation to Newmont Corporation in early 2020 (after the 2019 merger with Goldcorp).

Curated by qvyshift.com from publicly-reported M&A activity (SEC filings, press releases, USGS Mineral Yearbooks). Not authoritative — verify against primary sources before relying on it. The MSHA panel above is the current authoritative source for actively-permitted mines.

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