The Central Eureka is a gold and silver mine located in Amador county, California.
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Central Eureka MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Central Eureka
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Primary: Silver
Tertiary: Iron
Tertiary: Zinc
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Copper
Location
State: California
County: Amador
Land Status
Land ownership: Private
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Central Eureka Mining Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1855
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: L
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR/PINCH AND SWELL
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Alteration Type: L
Alteration Text: Hydrothermal Alteration Of Meta-Andesite Causing Blocky Meta-Andesite To Mix With Quartz In Ore Veins; Meta-Andesite Altered To Schist In Places.
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Sphalerite
Ore: Chalcopyrite
Ore: Galena
Ore: Silver
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Albite
Gangue: Ankerite
Comments
Comment (Commodity): GOLD ALLOYED WITH SILVER IN FREE-MILLING STATE OR GOLD DISSEMINATED WITH PYRITE; PYRITE AND ARSENOPYRITE COMMON, SPHALERITE, CHALCOPYRITE AND GALENA MINOR.
Comment (Location): SW 1/4
Comment (Workings): 2 INCLINED SHAFTS AVERAGING 65 DEGREES 4855 AND 3500 FT.; 3500 FT. SHAFT WITH WINZE AT BASE TO 4150 FT., WATER CONFINED TO THIS SHAFT; LEVELS AT 2900 , 3100 , 3400 , 3500 , 3600 , 3700 , 3800 , 3900 , 4150 , FT. WITH TOTAL OF SEVERAL THOUSAND FT. OF DRIFTS; DUE TO CONSIDERABLE GOUGE ON WALLS OF MOST LEVELS, STOPES TIMBERED CLOSE TO FACE; CUT AND FILL METHOD OF STOPING USED.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: ORE BODIES CONSIST OF QUARTZ-ANKERITE-ALBITE AND MASSIVE QUARTZ STRINGERS, LENSES AND VEINS. IN UPPER PORTION OF MINE ORE BODIES IN BLACK SLATE AT CONTACT WITH META-ANDESITE; META-ANDESITE HANGING WALL BUT BOTH IT AND SLATE FOUND ON BOTH WALLS DUE TO VEINS CROSSING INTERBEDDED LENSES OF BOTH ROCK TYPES. ORE VEIN AT DEPTH IS A BLACK GOUGE WITH QUARTZ STRINGERS. AVERAGE THICKNESS OF MINERALIZED BLACK GOUGE ZONE 8 FT. ONE ORE BODY PARALLEL TO ORE VEIN 420 FT. LONG, 280 FT. WIDE; LARGE WEDGE 850 FT. LONG, 35 FT. WIDE AND AS GREAT AS 125 FT. CONTAINS SEVERAL ORE LENSES.
Comment (Deposit): OLD EUREKA MINE INCORPERATED WITH CENTRAL EUREKA MINE; BOTH OPERATED SEPARATELY UNTIL 1924 WHEN THEY MERGED.
Comment (Deposit): Discovery Year: 1850'S
Comment (Production): CENTRAL EUREKA , ORIGINALLY "SUMMIT" WORKED FROM 1855-1875; REOPENED IN 1895 AS CENTRAL EUREKA; OPERATED INTERMITTENTLY UNTIL 1924 WHEN CONSOLIDATED WITH OLD EUREKA WHICH HAD BEEN WORKED INTERMITTENTLY SINCE 1852. WORKED INTERMITTENTLY FROM 1930 TO 1942; MINING RESUMED IN 1946 BUT LITTLE DONE UNTIL 1948. PRODUCED 39,440 TONS OF ORE YIELDING MORE THAN $500,000 IN GOLD AND SILVER IN 1951. TOTAL PRODUCTION (BOTH MINES) $36,000,000 APPROX. TO END OF 1951. GOLD ALLOYED WITH SILVER IN FREE-MILLING STATE OR DISSEMINATED IN PYRITE, PYRITE AND ARSENOPYRITE ARE COMMON, SPHALERITE, CHALCOPYRITE, AND GALENA ARE PRESENT IN MINOR AMOUNTS
References
Reference (Deposit): CARLSON, D.W. AND CLARK, W.B., 1954 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF AMADOR COUNTY, CAL.: CJMG VOL. 50 , P. 173
Reference (Deposit): LOGAN, C.A., 1934 , MOTHER LODE GOLD BELT OF CAL.: CBM BULL. 108 , P. 74 - 80 .
Reference (Deposit): USGS PROF. PAPER 157, P. 59-62
Reference (Production): CARLSON, D.W. AND CLARK, W.B., 1954
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