The American is a gold mine located in Shasta county, California.
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American MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: American
Secondary: Old American
Secondary: French Gulch
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Arsenic
Tertiary: Lead
Tertiary: Sulfur
Location
State: California
County: Shasta
District: French Gulch
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Underground
Ownership
Not available
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: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: Klamath Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: TABULAR
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Gold
Ore: Galena
Comments
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION RECORDED PRIOR TO 1914
Comment (Workings): SIX CLAIMS; SERIES OF 5 ADITS, 50 TO 1400 FT. WITH DRIFTS, WINZES, STOPES, ETC.; SEVERAL LEVELS. ORE SHOOT 125 X 2 FT.
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: BOTH SLATE AND CONGLOMERATE ENCOUNTERED IN UPPER WORKINGS, ONLY SLATE IN LOWER PART. SLATE CRUSHED NEAR VEIN, SMALL ANGULAR FRAGMENTS SILICIFIED. SLATE IN FAULT CONTACT WITH GREENSTONE.
Comment (Deposit): CLAIMS LOCATED IN 1886 .
References
Reference (Deposit): CLARK, W.B., 1970 , GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: C.D.M.G., BULL. 193 , 186 P.
Reference (Deposit): LYDON, P.A., AND O'BRIEN, J.C., 1974 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF SHASTA COUNTY, CAL.: C.D.M.G., COUNTY REPT 6 , 154 P.
Reference (Production): LYDON, P.A. AND O'BRIEN, J.C., 1974 : CAL. DIV. OF MINES AND GEOL., COUNTY REPT. 6 , 154 P.
Reference (Deposit): ALBERS, J.P., 1965 , ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE FRENCH GULCH QUADRANGLE, SHASTA AND TRINITY COUNTIES, CAL.: C.D.M.G., SPECIAL REPT. 85 , 43 P.
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