The Greens Gulch & Greens Gulch Ext. is a gold mine located in Mariposa county, California.
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Greens Gulch & Greens Gulch Ext. MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Greens Gulch & Greens Gulch Ext.
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Mariposa
District: Mount Bullion
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Mariposa Com'L And Mining Co.
Home Office: Mariposa Com'L & Mining Co.
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1855
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Slate
Role: Host
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Jurassic
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Pyrite
Gangue: Ankerite
Comments
Comment (Workings): 300 FT. SHAFT WITH 13 LEVELS, A 550 FOOT ADIT LEVEL, 510 FOOT DRIFT ON 1ST LEVEL, 360 FT. DRIFT ON 2ND LEVEL. CROSS CUTS, RAISES, STOPES.
Comment (Production): PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY 1860'S, 1901-14. SOME WORK DONE 1941 BUT NOTHING SINCE. RECORDS SHOW PRODUCTION 1900-15, GREENS GULCH PRODUCED 10,625 TONS OF ORE WHICH YIELDED $119,140.70, AVERAGE VALUE OF $10.25 PER TON AT OLD GOLD PRICE; DURING SAME PERIOD GREENS GULCH EXT. PRODUCED 10.25 TONS OF ORE FROM WHICH $313.99 WAS REALIZED OR $13.96 PER TON.
Comment (Deposit): VEIN
Comment (Deposit): THE VEIN MATTER IS PRINCIPALLY MILKY QUARTZ CONTAINING NATIVE GOLD AND AURIFEROUS PYRITE. THE GREENS GULCH VEIN IS PROBABLY AN EXTENSION OF THE MAIN VEIN AT THE PRINCETON MINE (SECS. 13, 18). THIS MINE IS ONE OF THE LAS MARIPOSAS GRANT MINES.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: BROAD VEIN INTERSECTED BY NE-TRENDING CUTTER VEINS. THE MOTHER LODE BROAD VEIN PART OF A SERIES OF NW-TRENDING EN ECHELON MOTHER LODE VEINS, AND IS PROBABLY AN EXTENSION OF THE PRINCETON MINE MAIN VEIN. AVE THICKNESS 3 FT.
Comment (Location): UTM EST. SEC LINES PROJECTED
References
Reference (Deposit): CASTELLO, W. O., 1921 , MARIPOSA COUNTY: 17TH REPORT STATE MINERALOGIST ( FOR 1920 ) , P. 117 .
Reference (Production): BOWEN AND GRAY, 1957
Reference (Deposit): CLARK, W. B., 1970 , GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIF.: CDM BULL. 193 , P. 94 .
Reference (Deposit): BOWEN, O. E., JR., & GRAY, H., JR., 1957 , MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS OF MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIF.: CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL., VOL. 53 , NOS. 1 & 2 , P. 105 - 106 , 267 .
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