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Curran Mine

Past Producer in Inyo county in California, United States with commodities Gold, Silver, Iron
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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. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10103513
MRDS ID M024182
Record type Site
Current site name Curran Mine
Related records 10139400

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -117.08899, 36.12358 (WGS84)
Elevation 2073
Relative position 0.5 MI NE PANAMINT TOWNSITE

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Inyo(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Panamint(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Darwin Hills(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Death Valley(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Panamint Valley(hydrologic unit)

Northern Mojave(hydrologic accounting unit)

Northern Mojave-Mono Lake(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Death Valley National Park(National Park)

National Park NPS(Type of land area)

NPS(Federal land areas administered by NPS)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Inyo

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021S 045E 11 California

Comments on the location information

  • UTM ACC. LAND UNSURVEYED Looks like typo in Latitude. Values changed to match DEP_ID 10139400.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary
Iron Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Marcasite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Quartz Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Oxidation Near Surface

Analytical data

Result ORE WAS NOT SUCCESSFULLY CONCENTRATED DUE TO HIGH SULFIDE CONTENT, BUT RANGED, IN TENOR, FROM $13-$7/TON IN GOLD.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist
    Rock unit name Suprise Formation
    Rock description Suprise Formation

Nearby scientific data

(1) -117.08899, 36.12358
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Strike N40W
    Dip 25NE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Schistosity

Comments on the geologic information

  • VEINLETS OF SIDERITE CUT MARCASITE AND CHALCOPYRITE. MARCASITE REPLACES PYRRHOTITE ALONG CLEAVAGE PLANES. ORDER OF MINERAL DEPOSITION WAS POSTULATED AS FOLLOWS: PYRITE, QUARTZ, PYRRHOTITE, CHALCOPYRITE, MARCASITE AND SIDERITE OVERLAPPING WITH MARCASITE AND CHALCOPYRITE. DETAILED PETROGRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF SULFIDES IN SAMPSON (1932).

Economic information about the deposit and operations

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

Comments on the workings information

  • 300 FT. OF WORKINGS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    NORMAN, L. A. JR. AND STEWART, RICHARD M., 1951, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 47, NO. 1, P. 149

  • Deposit

    TUCKER, W.B. AND SAMPSON, R.J., 1938, MINERAL RESOURCES OF INYO COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 34, NO. 4, P. 394

  • Deposit

    SAMPSON, R.I., 1932, MINERAL RESOURCES OF A PART OF THE PANAMINT RANGE: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 28, P. 366-368

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SEVERAL VEINS, AVG. 2 FT. IN THICKNESS. HEAVILY MINERALIZED WITH MASSIVE SULFIDES AND SUBORDINATE COARSELY GRANULAR, GLASSY QUARTZ. PYRRHOTITE AND PYRITE IMPREGNATE WALL ROCK FOR SEVERAL INCHES FROM VEIN. MOST SULFIDES OCCUR OF SURFACE. APPARENTLY, SOME SILVER-BEARING VEINS OCCUR ON OR NEAR MAIN DEPOSIT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1980 Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.) U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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