The Champion Ii is a gold mine located in Mariposa county, California.
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Champion Ii MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Champion Ii
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Lead
Location
State: California
County: Mariposa
District: Kinsley
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/Underground
Ownership
Owner Name: Belle Mccord Roberts
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
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
Form: PINCH & SWELL
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Name: Hornblendite
Role: Associated
Age Type: Host Rock
Age Young: Late Permian
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Location): UTM EST. SEC LINES PROJECTED
Comment (Production): DISCOVERED BEFORE THE 1880'S. FIVE HUNDRED TONS OF ORE TAKEN OUT 1889-90 REPORTED TO AVERAGE ABOUT $12 PER TON; IN 1919 ONLY ASSESSMENT WORK WAS BEING DONE; NO SUSTAINED MINING DONE BEFORE 1929 AND LITTLE HAS BEEN DONE IN RECENT YEARS.
Comment (Deposit): QUARTZ VEIN 4-12 FT THICK
Comment (Workings): IN 1919 WORKINGS CONSISTED OF A 96-FT. SHAFT WITH LEVELS AT 50 AND 90 FT. 188 FT. DRIFTS, AND SHALLOW WORKINGS STRUNG OUT ALONG THE VEIN FOR OVER 1300 FT.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: VEIN MATTER IS IN PART MASSIVE MILKY QUARTZ AND IN PART A RIBBON-STRUCTURE OF LAMINATED WHITE & GLASSY QUARTZ INCLUDING THIN SHEETS OF SLATE WALL-ROCK. IT FOLLOWS CONTACT BETWEEN SLALY AND SCHISTOSE METASEDIMENTS AND HORNBLENDE GRANODIORITE WHICH IS CUT BY SEVERAL GRANITIC PORPHYRY DIKES. THE LARGEST DIKE PARALLELS STRIKE OF VEIN.
Comment (Deposit): OWNER HAS RETAINED MINERAL RIGHTS ON ONE CLAIM OF ABOUT 20 ACRES WHICH IS PART OF A PARCEL OF PATENTED AGRICULTURAL LAND.
References
Reference (Deposit): AUBURY, L. E., 1903 , REGISTER OF MINES AND MINERALS FOR MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIF., P. 10 .
Reference (Production): BOWEN AND GRAY, 1957
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. 84-85 , 249 .
Reference (Deposit): CASTELLO, W. O., 1921 , MARIPOSA COUNTY: 17TH REPORT STATE MINERALOGIST ( FOR 1920 ) , P. 110 .
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