1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Minnesota

Past Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Copper
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Workings at the site
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10034461
MRDS ID M021244
Record type Site
Current site name Minnesota
Alternate or previous names Rattler
Related records 10286705

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.39415, 40.65818 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 3 1/2 MILES W. OF COPELY

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 032N 006W 01,02 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES EST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Gold Ore
Pyrite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.39415, 40.65818
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N 75 W
    Dip 70 N
    Thickness 1.37M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: 5 VEINS ASSOCIATED WITH SHEARED ALASKITE PORPHYRY IN QUARTZ DIORITE; 4 VEINS ARE PARALLEL; DIORITE FOOTWALL, GRANITIC PORPHYRY HANGING WALL.

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
    Area 13.76HA

Comments on the workings information

  • 2 CLAIMS; 3 ADITS 1900 FT, DRIFTS 1000 FT, RAISES, STOPES 150 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1933 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE: CDM REPT 29 , P 37 .

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1939 , MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY: CDM REPT. 35 , P. 144 - 145 .

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1916 , SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 14 , P. 794

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894 , TWELFTH REPT. OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CMB REPT. 12 , P. 255

  • Deposit

    5) LYDON, P.A. AND O'BRIEN, J.C., MINES AND MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY, CAL.: CDMG, COUNTY REPT. 6 , 154 P.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site

Authoritative California resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.