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Uncle Sam

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. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Land status
  14. Workings at the site
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077547
MRDS ID W025247
Record type Site
Current site name Uncle Sam
Alternate or previous names Sierra Buttes Mining Company, Vera Mines

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.49999, 40.74874 (WGS84)
Elevation 732
Relative position ABOUT 6 MILES W. OF KENNET

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)

Sacramento Headwaters(hydrologic unit)

Upper 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)

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 Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 033N;033N 006W;005W 01;06 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES EST.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form TABULAR
    Strike N 80 W
    Dip 55 NE
    Thickness 1.22M
    Width 609.6M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SEVERAL VEINS, ONLY ONE WORKED, ORE CONCENTRATED

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Backbone

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Overall depth 140.21M

Comments on the workings information

  • 7 CLAIMS; 5 ADITS, 4 ON VEIN 50 - 3000 FT., ONE CROSS-CUT 400 FT.; DRIFTS, RAISES, STOPES; AT LEAST 5 ORE SHOOTS DISCOVERED; LOCATED 1862

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1933 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE: CDM REPT. 29 , P. 54 - 55

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1939 , MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY: CDM REPT. 35 , P. 154.

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1916 , SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 14 , P. 802 - 803.

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894 , TWELFTH REPT. OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CMB REPT. 12 , P. 258 - 259

  • Deposit

    5) MCGREGOR, ALEX, 1890 , SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 10 , P. 639

  • Production

    AVERILL, C.V., 1929

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.

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