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Five Pines

Past Producer in Trinity county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Arsenic, 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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Land status
  16. Links to other databases
  17. Bibliographic references
  18. General comments
  19. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10086645
MRDS ID X025893
Record type Site
Current site name Five Pines
Related records 10117187

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.68304, 40.85679 (WGS84)
Elevation 823
Relative position 2 MI. NW TRINITY MTN. GUARD STA. ON N. SLOPE VAN NESS CREEK

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Trinity(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Papoose Creek(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Redding(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Redding(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 035N 007W 19,20,29 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM EST. N 1/2 29. LAND UNSURVEYED FOR TOWNSHIP-RANGE. LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 7-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH USFS LAND OWNERSHIP BOUNDARIES, 1:126,720 SCALE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary
Manganese Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Pyrolusite Ore
Barite Gangue
Calcite Gangue
Graphite Gangue
Quartz Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic) > Felsic Volcanic Rock > Dacite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Sandstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.68304, 40.85679
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Anticline

Ore body information

  • General form POCKETS
    Strike NW E-W
    Dip 45 NE,N

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Fault

Comments on the geologic information

  • GREENSTONE DESCRIBED AS GRAY, VERY FINE-GRAINED OR APHANITIC; SLATE AS SOFT, BLACK AND GRAPHITIC

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No
Discovery year 1896

Mining district

District name Minersville

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Comments on the production information

  • LARGEST POCKET YIELDED $44,000, 60% OF TOTAL PRODUCTION WAS FROM ORE POUNDED OUT IN HAND-MORTAR BECAUSE GOLD WAS SO COARSE. NO OTHER PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND.

Comments on the workings information

  • ON SUPRISE CLAIM: 450 FT. DRIFT TO WINZE. 1000 FT. OF ADDITIONAL WORKINGS ON THIS LEVEL. OTHER DRIFTS, STOPES. MAIN VEIN NOT DEVEL. BELOW 100 FT. LEVEL. ON EMMA CLAIM: 300 FT. ADIT NEAR CREEK LEVEL, RAISES & DRIFTS.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROWN, G. CHESTER, 1913, THE COUNTIES OF SHASTA, SISKIYOU AND TRINITY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 14, PT. 4, P. 889

  • Deposit

    AVERILL, C.V., 1933, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 29, P. 25-26

  • Deposit

    FERGUSON, H.G., 1912, GOLD LODES OF WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 540, P. 73-74

  • Production

    LOGAN (1926) FERGUSON (1912)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit VEIN ALONG CONTACT. ORE OCCURS IN POCKETS, WHICH LIE ALONG NW AND SE LIMBS OF ANTICLINE, BUT NOT AT CREST. VEIN GOUGE-FILLED WITH MANY SMALL STRINGERS. ON SUPRISE CLAIM: MAIN VEIN ALONG FAULT FRACTURE, WHICH DEPLACES SLATE-ANDESITE CONTACT ABOUT 20 FT. ON EMMA CLAIM: NUMEROUS QUARTZ STRINGERS, WHICH FORM RICH POCKETS AT INTERSECTION WITH SLATE. GOLD OCCURS IN CALCITE ALONG CONTACT AND IN POCKETS, AND IS FOUND AT POINTS WHERE STRINGERS OR VEIN CROSSES CONTACT. SURFACE ORE HONEYCOMBED FROM SOLUTION OF CALCITE AND STAINED IN PLACES BY MANGANESE OXIDE. ORE APPEARED TO BE DEPOSITED ALONG CLEAVAGE PLANES IN CALCITE.
Deposit PATENTED. 80 ACRES. ADDITIONAL 5 UNPATENTED CLAIMS. EMMA AND SUPRISE WERE 2 MAIN CLAIMS. EMMA PARTLY WORKED AS PLACER ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

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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