The Georgia Slide is a gold mine located in El Dorado county, California.
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Mine Info
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Georgia Slide MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Georgia Slide
Secondary: Beattie and Parsons Cons.
Secondary: Blue Rock
Secondary: Mulvey Point
Secondary: Pacific
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: El Dorado
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface
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
Not available
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENTICULAR, PINCH & SWELL
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: $2 - $3 PER TON AU AVERAGE
Materials
Ore: Pyrite
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Gangue: Albite
Gangue: Calcite
Comments
Comment (Deposit): VEIN, SEAM GOLD DEPOSIT IN LENTICULAR BODY OF HIGHLY WEATHERED GREEN CHLORITIC SILICEOUS SCHIST WITH SOME INTERBEDDED BLACK SLATE, STRINGERS OF QUARTZ FROM 1 IN. TO 1 FT. OR MORE IN THICKNESS, AVERAGE 1 - 2 INCHES. THERE WERE 5 BELTS OF SCHIST WHERE STRINGERS WERE MORE ABUNDANT THAN ELSEWHERE, EAST BELT WAS 35 FT. THICK. SEAM ZONE DIMENTIONS GIVEN.
Comment (Commodity): GOOD CRYSTALLINE GOLD PRESENT
Comment (Production): ACTIVE 1853 - 1895 , DIFFERENT CLAIMS ACTIVE INTERMITTENTLY
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPED ORIGINALLY BY HYDRAULICKING FROM 1860 - 1895 . ESTIMATED 3.5 MIL.-CUBIC-YDS. REMOVED FROM PIT.
Comment (Geology): SEAM BELT
Comment (Deposit): CLAIMS ORIGINALLY WORKED SEPARATELY ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): TUCKER, W. B., 1919 , EL DORADO COUNTY: CALIF. MIN. BUR. REPT., 15TH REPT., STATE MIN., P. 286 .
Reference (Production): CLARK 1956
Reference (Deposit): CLARK, W. B., AND CARLSON, D. W., 1956 , MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF EL DORADO CO., CALIF.: CALIF. JOUR. OF MINES AND GEOL., VOL. 52 , NO. 4 , PG. 570 AND 436 AND PL. 10 .
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