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Sunny Hill

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. Workings at the site
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077599
MRDS ID W025302
Record type Site
Current site name Sunny Hill
Alternate or previous names Gray Eagle, Summit
Related records 10189245

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.71804, 40.48096 (WGS84)
Elevation 533
Relative position ABOUT 7 MILES W. OF ONO

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Tar Bully(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Red Bluff(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)

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)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Shasta

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 030N 008W 01 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE CARRIES LARGE PERCENTAGE OF SULFIDES

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Hornblendite

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N
    Dip 90
    Thickness 1.22M
    Depth to top 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: HORNEBLENDE SCHIST FOOT WALL; GRANITIC PORPHYRY HANGING WALL.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name Ono

Comments on the production information

  • PRODUCTION FROM SURFACE ORE SHOOT 1890'S; NO PRODUCTION RECORDED.

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Area 40.47HA

Comments on the workings information

  • ADIT 530 FT., DRIFTS 300 FT., 1 STOPE; ORE SHOOT 80 - 100 FT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1933 , GOLD LODES OF THE REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: CDM REPT. 29 , P. 50.

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1916 , SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 14 , P 799

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894 , TWELFTH REPT. OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CMB REPT. 12 , P. 257

  • Deposit

    LYDON, P.A. AND O'BRIEN J.C., 1974 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY, CAL.: CDM G, 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

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Authoritative California resources

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