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Blue Bird

Past Producer in Shasta 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. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034381
MRDS ID M021151
Record type Site
Current site name Blue Bird
Related records 10164886

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.4686, 40.66929 (WGS84)
Relative position 1/2 MILE N. OF MATHESON, ON THE S.W. OF COPELY MTN., NEAR THE SACRAMENTO RIVER.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Shasta Dam(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Bureau of Land Management(Bureau of Land Management CA)

Bureau of Land Management CA BLM(Type of land area)

BLM(Federal land areas administered by BLM)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 033N 005W 31 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES ESTIMATED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.4686, 40.66929
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Thickness 1.83M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: VEIN DEPOSIT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 10.67M

Comments on the workings information

  • SHAFT ON VEIN 35 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C. V., 1939 , MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY: C. D. M. REPT. 35 , P 132 .

  • Deposit

    LYDON, P. A. AND O'BRIEN, J. C., 1974 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY, CAL.: C. D. M. G. COUNTY REPT. 6 , 154 P.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO ROCK DESCRIPTION FOUND

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-APR-1978 Tatkin, T.; Albers, John P. U.S. Geological Survey

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