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Silverado Mine Calistoga Mount St. Helena

Producer in Napa county in California, United States with commodities Silver, 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. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Ownership information
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10109279
MRDS ID M010807
Record type Site
Current site name Silverado Mine Calistoga Mount St. Helena

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: -122.60496, 38.6521 (WGS84)
Relative position 5 MI. N. OF CALISTOGA ON E. SLOPE OF MT. ST. HELENA.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Napa(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Detert Reservoir(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Healdsburg(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Santa Rosa(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

San Pablo Bay(hydrologic unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic accounting unit)

San Francisco Bay(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

ST(Federal land areas administered by ST)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States California Napa

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 09N 07W 02 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Silver Primary
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

(1) -122.60496, 38.6521
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Harry Patten

Comments on the production information

  • OPENED IN 1872; A 10-STAMP MILL OPERATED FOUR MONTHS IN 1874 WITH A PRODUCTION OF $93,000 FROM 2300 TONS OF ORE. IT IS REPORTED THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME 40,000 TONS OF $12 ORE IS BLOCKED OUT. INACTIVE SINCE 1927. PRODUCED SMALL TONNAGE OF LOW-GRADE SILVER-GOLD ORE IN 1948.

Comments on the workings information

  • TUNNELS

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    CALIF. REPT. 25, 1929, P. 238

  • Deposit

    JOUR. V. 44, NO. 2, APRIL 1948, P.183; JOUR. V. 53, NOS. 3 & 4, JULY-OCT. 1957, P. 573

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGY AND SILVER MINERALIZATION OF THE CALISTOGA DISTRICT, NAPA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: M. A. THESIS U.C. BERKELY. (WILLIAM H. CRUTCHFIELD)

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit IN SONOMA VOLCANICS AT SURFACE (CALIF. DIV. MINES, V. 42, NO 3, PL. 29 - A REAL GEOLOGIC MAP. FISSURE FILLING IN A FAULT ZONE IN VOLCANICS ORE MINERALS: CHALCOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, ARGENTITE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Gere, W. U.S. Geological Survey

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