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Mad Mule

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. Alteration
  9. Host and associated rocks
  10. Nearby scientific data
  11. Geologic structures
  12. Ore body information
  13. Controls for ore emplacement
  14. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  15. Mining district
  16. Workings at the site
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077597
MRDS ID W025299
Record type Site
Current site name Mad Mule
Alternate or previous names Banghart
Related records 10286376

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.57999, 40.67624 (WGS84)
Elevation 823
Relative position ABOUT 4 MILES N. OF WHISKEYTOWN, ON MAD MULE GULCH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Whiskeytown(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 033N 006W 31 California

Comments on the location information

  • SECTIONS PROJECTED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :UNDETERMINED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Calcite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Hydrothermal

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Slate
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Intermediate Volcanic Rock > Andesite

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.57999, 40.67624
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Folded Slate

Ore body information

  • General form LENSES AND POCKETS
    Thickness 0.08M
    Length 6.1M
    Width 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Slate - Diorite Porphyry Dike Contact And At Crests And Troughs Of Folded Slate.

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: SLATE FOOT WALL, META-ANDESITE HANGING WALL; DIORITE PORPHYRY ABOUT 150 FT. THICK STRIKING W AND DIPPING 40 - 60 N CUTS BOTH HOST ROCKS CAUSING SLATE TO FOLD. BESIDE OCCURING IN QUARTZ LENSES, LARGE INDIVIDUAL GOLD PIECES FOUND IN POCKETS, COMPOSED OF CALCITE; SMALL SCATTERED CUBES OF PYRITE ONLY INDICATION OF HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Medium
Significant No
Production years 1912

Mining district

District name Shasta

Comments on the production information

  • INDIVIDUAL GOLD PIECES REMOVED FROM POCKETS VALUED UP TO $4,000; ENTIRE POCKETS UP TO $8,000 IN 1920'S.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 24.282HA

Comments on the workings information

  • 3 CLAIMS; ORIGINALLY MINED FOR PLACER IN EARLY 1850'S, DEVELOPED BY SEVERAL ADITS AFTER 1887 .

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1933 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: CMB REPT. 29 , P. 35 - 36

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1916 , SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 14 , P. 791.

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894 , TWELFTH REPT. OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CMB REPT. 12 , P. 252.

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.G., 1914 , GOLD LODES OF WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE, CAL.: U.S.G.S. BULL. 540 , P. 52.

  • Deposit

    5) LOGAN, C.A., 1926 , SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CMB REPT. 22 , P. 175

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    7) TUCKER, W.B., 1923 , REDDING FIELD DIVISION: C.M.B. REPT. 19 , P. 11.

  • Production

    TUCKER, W.B., 1923

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit NO OTHER INFORMATION FOUND.

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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Authoritative California resources

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