Craycroft-Wideawake Mine

Past Producer in Sierra county in California, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  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. Land status
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10213367
MRDS ID W025569
MAS/MILS ID 0060910473
Record type Site
Current site name Craycroft-Wideawake Mine
Alternate or previous names Wideawake Mine, Nessler Mine, West Yuba Rare Ii Area
Related records 10077711

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Main Entrance
Geographic coordinates: -120.78543, 39.63598 (WGS84)
Elevation 1635
Location accuracy 10(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Sierra(county)

California(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Mount Fillmore(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Portola(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Chico(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper Yuba(hydrologic unit)

Lower Sacramento(hydrologic accounting unit)

Sacramento(hydrologic subregion)

California(hydrologic region)

Federal lands

Tahoe 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 Sierra

Public Land Survey System information

Meridian Township Range Section Fraction State
Mount Diablo 021 N 011 E 31 S2 California

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Main Entrance (1) -120.78543, 39.63598

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category National Forest

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PRESTON, E. B., 1894, GOLD-SIERRA COUNTY, IN TWELFTH REPORT

  • Deposit

    OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIF. STATE MINING BUREAU,

  • Deposit

    P. 274-275.

  • Deposit

    PRESTON, E. B., 1893, SIERRA COUNTY, IN ELEVENTH REPORT OF

  • Deposit

    THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIF. STATE MINING BUREAU,

  • Deposit

    P. 405.

  • Deposit

    WHITNEY, J. D., 1865, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CALIFORNIA:

  • Deposit

    GEOLOGY, V. 1,, PHILADELPHIA, 498 P.

  • Deposit

    WHITNEY, J. D., 1879, THE AUIFEROUS GRAVELS OF THE SIERRA

  • Deposit

    NEVADA: MEM. MUS. COMP. ZOOL., HAVARD COLLECTION, V. 6,

  • Deposit

    569 P.

  • Deposit

    CLARK, W. B., 1970, GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: CALIF.

  • Deposit

    DIV. MINES AND GEOL. BULLETIN 193, P. 44.

  • Deposit

    SINNOTT, J. J., 1972, DOWNIEVILLE GOLD TOWN ON THE YUBA:

  • Deposit

    CALIFORNIA TRAVELER, INC., VOLCANO, CALIFORNIA, P. 172.

  • Deposit

    TAYLOR, G.F., 1903, SIERRA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: REGISTER OF

  • Deposit

    MINES AND MINERALS: CALIF. STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 8.

  • Deposit

    WHITE, W. W., III, AND OTHERS, 1983, MINERAL INVESTIGATION

  • Deposit

    OF THE EAST AND WEST YUBA RARE II AREAS (NOS. 5264 AND

  • Deposit

    5172), SIERRA AND PLUMAS COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA: U. S.

  • Deposit

    BUREAU OF MINES OPEN-FILE REPORT MLA 71-83.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit GOLD-BEARING TERTIARY GRAVEL CHANNEL DEPOSIT. NESSLER MINE IS PART OF CRAYCROFT-WIDEAWAKE PROPERTY. THREE SAMPLES CONTAINED FROM 0.0006 TO 0.0022 OUNCE GOLD PER CUBIC YARD OF GRAVEL. MINE CONSISTS OF ALBERTA, KATIE, FRANCES, RUTH, SISTER K, ADELINE, JOAN, MABEL, ELAINE, VIRGINIA, HESTER, AND CHRISTINE CLAIMS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-MAY-1990 Scott U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

Authoritative California resources

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