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Gold Hill Dredging Co.

Occurrence in Placer 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. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. General comments
  12. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10032016
MRDS ID M012062
Record type Site
Current site name Gold Hill Dredging Co.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -121.1602, 38.80267 (WGS84)
Relative position 2 1/2 MILES SE OF LOOMIS ON THE LAIRD AND O. L. BARTON RANCHES.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Placer(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Rocklin(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Sacramento(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower American(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Placer

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 011N 007E 14 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -121.1602, 38.80267
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: REMNANTS OF BOTH EARLY AND LATE TERTIARY GRAVEL DEPOSITS, LEFT BY THE PREHISTORIC AMERICAN RIVER THAT WERE MINED AT THE HASKELL (SECS. 21, 28-12N-8E) APPARENTLY AT ONE TIME EXTENDED FROM THERE TO THE OLD BARTON AND LAIRD DRIFT MINES (SEC. 22, 27? THIS TP) BUT INTERVENING DISTANCE APPARENTLY ERODED TO THE EXPOSED GRANODIORITE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • WORK WAS BEGINNING HERE IN 1935.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL. V. 32, NO. 1, 1936, P. 81, 90

  • Deposit

    USGS FOLIO 5, SACRAMENTO

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THE COURSE IS INDICATED BY A SERIES OF SMALL HILLS CAPPED WITH ANDESITE UNDER WHICH GRAVEL HAS BEEN MINED IN SEVERAL PLACES. HERE, SOME 2 1/2 MILES IN LENGTH OF THE ANCIENT GRAVEL IS EXPOSED, LYING BELOW THE PRESENT DRAINAGE.

Reporter information

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

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