Location
This district is part of the Crescent Mills-Taylorsville-Genesee gold belt of east-central Plumas County. It has not been as productive as the other two districts in this belt. The general region was first mined during the gold rush, and there has been intermittent prospecting and development work ever since. It was named for J. T. Taylor, who built a mill and hotel there in 1852.
Geology
The Taylorsville area is underlain by a series of northwest-trending belts of Paleozoic and Mesozoic metamorphic rocks, serpentine, and granodiorite. The gold-bearing quartz veins are narrow and strike in a northwest direction. The veins usually occur in and near the granodiorite. The ore contains free gold and varying amounts of pyrite and chalcopyrIte.
Mines
Buster, California, Deadman, Iron Dike, King Solomon (placer), Pettinger, Premium $180,000.
Bibliography
Averill, C. V., 1937, Plumas County, gold: California Div. Mines Rept. 33, pp. 103-124.
Diller, J.S., 1908, Geology of the Taylorsville region, California: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 353, 128 pp.
Diller, J. S., 1909, Mineral resources of the Indian Valley region: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 260, pp. 45--49.
Mac Boyle, Errol, 1920, Plumas County, Taylorsville
