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Texas Hill Carrie Todd, Texas

Producer in Mariposa 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10031080
MRDS ID M009662
Record type Site
Current site name Texas Hill Carrie Todd, Texas
Related records 10140352

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -120.02127, 37.68548 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 MI. SW USFS KINSLEY GD. STA. - E1/2 7, W1/2 8

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Mariposa(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Buckhorn Peak(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Oakdale(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

San Jose(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Merced(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Stanislaus 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 Mariposa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 03S 18E 07,08 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -120.02127, 37.68548
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1865

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner G. Ross Frank And Mary E. Shell
    Home office C/O W. J. Beatty

Comments on the production information

  • KNOWN PRODUCTION IS ABOUT $74,000. ORE PRODUCED 1941-43 AVERAGED ABOUT 1/3 OZ. GOLD AND 1/5 OZ. SILVER PER TON PLUS A LITTLE COPPER AND LEAD. PRIOR TO THAT TIME ORE HAD RUN APPROX. $20 PER TON AT PRESENT PRICE OF GOLD. IDLE SINCE 1943.

Comments on the workings information

  • THREE DRIFT ADITS EACH SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET LONG; WINZE CONNECTS THE LOWER AND MIDDLE TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 53, NOS. 1 & 2, JAN.-APRIL, 1957, PP. 174-5, 311

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL. V. 53, NOS. 3 & 4, PP. 552-3

  • Deposit

    D.O.M. BULL. 144, PT. 3, 1948, P. 269

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit ONE CLAIM, THE CARRIE TODD, PATENTED, 20.66 ACRES, AND SEVERAL ADJOINING UNPATENTED CLAIMS. PRODUCED ABOUT 3200 TONS OF GOLD ORE 1919-1943; CONCENTRATES SHIPPED CONTAINED RECOVERABLE LEAD AND COPPER. MOST OF THE ORE WAS TREATED AT THE MINE AND BULLION RECOVERED DIRECTLY.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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