| Deposit ID | 10189961 |
|---|---|
| MRDS ID | W025295 |
| MAS/MILS ID | 0060890368 |
| Record type | Site |
| Current site name | Iron Mountain Mine |
| Alternate or previous names | Number 8, Richmond, Brick Flat, Mattie, Hornet Mine, Confidence, Old Mine |
| Related records | 10077593 |
| Point of reference | Main Entrance |
|---|---|
| Geographic coordinates: | -122.5314, 40.68795 (WGS84) |
| Elevation | 1000 |
| Location accuracy | 10(meters) |
Political divisions (FIPS codes)
Shasta(county)
California(state)
United States(country)
North America(continent)
Land(continent)
USGS map quadrangles
Whiskeytown(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)
| Country | State | County |
|---|---|---|
| United States | California | Shasta |
| Meridian | Township | Range | Section | Fraction | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Diablo | 033 N | 006 W | 34 | E2 | California |
| Commodity | Importance |
|---|---|
| Copper | Primary |
| Gold | Secondary |
| Sulfur-Pyrite | Tertiary |
| Silver | Secondary |
| Sulfur | Tertiary |
| Zinc Critical | Secondary |
| Materials | Type of material |
|---|---|
| Calcite | Unknown |
| Chalcopyrite | Unknown |
| Inyoite | Unknown |
| Pyrite | Unknown |
| Quartz | Unknown |
| Silver | Unknown |
| Sphalerite | Unknown |
| Main Entrance (1) | Carboniferous marine rocks, unit 4 (Eastern Klamath Mountains) |
|---|
| Dip | 30W | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thickness | 15M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 350M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Width | 125M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | 15HA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Depth to top | 40M | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operation type | Underground |
|---|---|
| Development status | Past Producer |
| Commodity type | Both |
| Deposit size | Large |
| Significant | No |
| Discovery year | 1865 |
| Year of first production | 1879 |
| District name | Shasta District |
|---|
| Ownership category | Mixed |
|---|
| Type | Owner-Operator |
|---|---|
| Owner | Stauffer Chemical Co. And Iron Mountain Mines 1956-1977 |
| Interest | 100 |
| Home office | California |
| Year | 1978 |
| Agency | Database name | Acronym | Record ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Mines | Minerals Availability System | MAS | 0060890368 | |
| USGS | Mineral Resources Data System | MRDS | W025295 | MAS references MRDS |
CLAWSON R.F., 1969, SQUAW CR. CU INV., CAL. DEP. WAT. RES.
MEM. REPORT 29P.
ERIC J.H., 1948, TABULATION OF CU, DEP. OF CAL., PART 3 IN C
U IN CAL., CAL. DIV. MINES BULL 144, P197-387.
KINKLE A.R., HALL W.E., ALBERS J.P., 1956, GEO. AND BASE MET
AL DEPOSITS OF WEST SHASTA CO-ZN DISTRICT, SHASTA CO. CAL.,
USGS PROF. PAPER 285, 156P.
MOORE L., 1970, CU RES. AND PRODUCTION OF WEST SHASTA MINING
DISTRICT, USMB REP 85
HILLMAN C.T., SCHUMACHER, GOSLING, 1977, THE WEST SHASTA DIS
TRICT, SHASTA COUNTY CAL., USBM MAS REPORT, 40P.
HUTTL J.B., 1946, DIAMOND DRILLING FEATURES MT CUIS MINING,
ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, VOL. 147, NO. 9, P64-68.
KINKLE A.R., ALBEERS J.P., 1951, GEOL. OF THE MASSIVE SULFID
E DEPOSITS AT IRON MT CAL., CAL. DIV. OF MINES SPECIAL REPOR
T 14, 19P.
| Subject category | Comment text |
|---|---|
| Deposit | SEE MAS SEQUENCE NO 0475 FOR BENEFICIATION AND UNDERGROUND MINING. |
| Type | Date | Name | Affiliation | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporter | 27-FEB-1984 | Hillman | U.S. Bureau of Mines |
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