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

St. Patrick & Josephine

Past Producer in Madera county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035130
MRDS ID M022295
Record type Site
Current site name St. Patrick & Josephine
Related records 10139268

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -119.77153, 37.32521 (WGS84)
Elevation 762
Relative position 3/4 MI S TWIN SISTERS PEAK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Madera(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Horsecamp Mountain(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Shaver Lake(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Mariposa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Fresno River(hydrologic unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Joaquin(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Madera

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 007S 020E 15,16 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST. S 1/2 N 1/2 IN CENTER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate

Nearby scientific data

(1) -119.77153, 37.32521
ListMap

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike NE
    Dip 45 S
    Thickness 1.52M

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 103.63M

Comments on the workings information

  • INCLINE, 20 - STAMP MILL

Comments on development

  • ECON.COM: ASSAYED IN 1888 AT $150/TON IN GOLD

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    IRELAND, W., 1888 , MADERA COUNTY: REPORT 8 OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, P. 213 - 214 .

  • Deposit

    LAIZURE, C., 1935 , CURRENT MINING ACTIVITIES IN THE SAN FRANCISCO DISTRICT: CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 31 , NO. 1 , P. 25 .

  • Deposit

    LOGAN, C. A., 1950 , MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES OF MADERA COUNTY, CALIF.: CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 46 , NO. 4 , P. 473 , PL. 73 .

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VARIOUS FIGURES ON COSTS, EQUIPMENT USED AND PROPERTY DIMENSIONS IN IRELAN ( 1888 ). SEE JOSEPHINE ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit VEIN, 5 FT. THICK. GRANITE HANGING WALL, SLATE FOOTWALL

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (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.