The Independence is a gold mine located in Siskiyou county, California at an elevation of 1,201 feet.
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All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.
Mine Info
Elevation: 1,201 Feet (366 Meters)
Commodity: Gold
Lat, Long: 41.65278, -123.44556
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Independence MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Independence
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Siskiyou
Land Status
Land ownership: National Forest
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
Not available
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: M
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: Klamath Mountains
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Form: LENS
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): UTM. ACC. REFERENCES PLACE MINE IN SEC 32. TOPO INDICATES 31
Comment (Production): SPECIMEN ORE FROM 14 FT. WINZE IN UPPER ADIT CLAIMED TO HAVE YIELDED $43000. A QUANTITY OF RICH SPECIMEN ORE EST. TO CONTAIN OVER $25000 IN AU WAS TAKEN FROM MINE IN AUGUST, 1924. NO OTHER SPECIFIC PRODUCTION RECORDS FOUND.
Comment (Deposit): POCKETS OF HIGH-GRADE ORE IN VEIN, 2-3 FT THICK, NUMEROUS VUGS OF ALL SIZES ON HANGING WALL PART OF VEIN, WHERE PART OF ROCK HAS BEEN LEACHED OUT, LEAVING QUARTZ AND SOFT SEAM FILLING. HANGING WALL SHOWED GOOD BUNCHES OF ORE, BUT FOOTWALL YIELDED MOST OF THE GOLD.
Comment (Workings): 180 FT. SHAFT W/4 LEVELS. TOTAL OF 750 FT. OF DRIFTS. SEVERAL DWELLINGS. LAST WORKED IN 1931. FOR DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WORKINGS, SEE LOGAN (1925).
Comment (Development): ECON.COM: MILL RUNS INDICATED THAT IT WAS NOT PROFITABLE TO MILL QUARTZ BETWEEN POCKETS TESTS ON ORE FROM LOWER ADIT INDICATED POSSIBILITY OF PROFITABLY MILLING QUARTZ OUTSIDE SPECIMEN ORE SHOOTS.
Comment (Geology): HORSE OF SERPENTINE FILLS A LARGE PART OF FISSURE
Comment (Deposit): 140 ACRES. APPARENTLY, SOME TIME AFTER 1935, THIS MINE WAS CONSOLIDATED INTO BUZZARD HILL MINE, INC. OWNED BY VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS DURING PRODUCTION YEARS. SEVERAL OWNERS AND THEIR CAPITAL GAINS ARE MENTIONED BY LOGAN (1925). ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT
References
Reference (Deposit): OBRIEN, J.C., 1947, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 43, NO. 4, P. 430, PL. 42
Reference (Deposit): AVERILL, C.V., 1935, MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 31, NO. 3, P. 288-9, PL. 4
Reference (Deposit): LOGAN, C.A., 1925, SACRAMENTO FIELD DIVISION: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 21, NO. 4, P. 446-447
Reference (Production): AVERILL (1935) LOGAN (1925)
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