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New Blue Jay Mining Co.

Past Producer in Trinity county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Copper, Manganese
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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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Land status
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. General comments
  18. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10035922
MRDS ID M023875
Record type Site
Current site name New Blue Jay Mining Co.
Alternate or previous names Blue Jay
Related records 10239049

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.73167, 41.06456 (WGS84)
Elevation 1353
Relative position 1.3 MI. W. CARRVILLE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Carrville(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Mount Shasta(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Weed(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Trinity(hydrologic unit)

Klamath(hydrologic accounting unit)

Klamath-Northern California Coastal(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Shasta-Trinity 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 Trinity

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 037N 008W 13 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC SE 1/4 NW 1/4 AND E 1/2 SW 1/4 NW 1/4 2 LOCATIONS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Copper Secondary
Manganese Critical Secondary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GOLD OCCURS IN FREE STATE

Materials information

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

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.73167, 41.06456
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form POCKETS
    Strike NNE
    Dip 20SE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Shear Zones

Comments on the geologic information

  • COUNTRY ROCK IS PERIDOTITE, CUT BY SMALL MASSES OF GRANODIORITE BY LAMPROPHYRE DIKES AND DIKE OF GREENSTONE.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1886

Mining district

District name Coffee Creek

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • NO SPECIFIC PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND SMALL POCKET PRODUCED $60,000 IN A FEW DAYS IN 1892.

Comments on the workings information

  • ADITS 500 FT. LONG AND 200 FT. OF DRIFTS. WINZE AND RAISES. ORE WAS STOPED TO SURFACE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1931: PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE SHASTA QUADRANGLE: CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL., V. 27, P. 29

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1913, THE COUNTIES OF SHASTA, SISKIYOU AND TRINITY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOLOGY, V. 14, P. 885

  • Deposit

    MACDONALD, D.F., 1912, GOLD LODES OF THE CARRVILLE DISTRICT: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 530-D, P. 36-37

  • Deposit

    MCKLAZIURE, C., 1921, TRINITY COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 17, P. 541

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit 40 ACRES ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
Deposit 2 FISSURE VEINS SHORT ORE SHOOT 16 IN THICK. WORKINGS EXPOSED ORE BODY 50 FT. IN LENGTH AND 130 FT. IN HEIGHT. ORE OCCURS IN CLAYEY MATERIAL.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

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