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Niagara Group

Past Producer in Shasta county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Lead, Zinc
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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. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10077604
MRDS ID W025307
Record type Site
Current site name Niagara Group
Alternate or previous names Black Tom, Montezuma, Niagara Summit Mining Company, Scorpion
Related records 10305054

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.68971, 40.72429 (WGS84)
Elevation 838
Relative position ABOUT 3 1/2 MILES NW OF FRENCH GULCH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Shasta(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

French Gulch(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 007W 07,08,17,18 California

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES ESTIMATED; SECTION PROJECTED ; INFO FROM LAND.ST :UNDETERMINED

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Lead Tertiary
Zinc Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • SMALL AMOUNTS OF SULFIDE WITH QUARTZ

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Sphalerite Ore
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) -122.68971, 40.72429
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form PINCH AND SWELL
    Thickness 3.05M
    Depth to bottom 0M

Comments on the geologic information

  • GEOL.DESC: 4 PARALLEL VEINS, PARALLEL TO IRREGULAR DIKES; MAIN VEIN DIPS S., OTHERS DIP N

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Mining district

District name French Gulch

Comments on the workings information

  • 35 CLAIMS; SEVERAL ADITS ON BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH SIDE OF PROMINENT RIDGE. LOCATED 1857.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C. V., 1933 , GOLD DEPOSITS OF REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: CDM REPT. 29 , P. 40 - 41

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1939 , MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY: CDM REPT. 35 , P. 146

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G.C., 1916 , SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 14 , P. 795 - 796.

  • Deposit

    CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894 , TWELFTH REPT. OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CMB REPT. 12 , P. 253

  • Deposit

    5) FAIRBANKS H.W., 1893 , GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 11 , P. 50 - 51.

  • Deposit

    6) FERGUSON, H.G., 1914 , GOLD LODES OF THE WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE, CAL.: USGS BULL. 540 , P. 66 - 67.

  • Deposit

    7) LOGAN, C.A., 1924 , SHASTA COUNTY IN SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CMB REPT. 20 , P. 15.

  • Deposit

    8) LYDON, P.A. AND O'BRIEN, J.C., 1974 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY CAL.: CDMG COUNTY REPT., P. 47.

  • Deposit

    9) MCGREGOR, ALEX, 1890 , SHASTA COUNTY: CMB REPT. 10 , P. 636 - 637.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FOLLOWING CLAIMS COMPRISE PORTION OF GROUP: NIAGARA SCORPION, SUMMIT, CENTENNIAL, HONEYCOMB AND SHEA, YOSEMITE, COLEMAN, COMET, BACON, NEBRASKA, UTAH, BARNEY, BADLAM, JUMBO, EXTENSION, MISSOURI, ILLINOIS, OHIO, IOWA

Reporter information

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

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