The Sultana Mine is a gold mine located in Calaveras county, California.
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Sultana Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Sultana Mine
Secondary: Winters
Secondary: Marshall
Secondary: Bovee
Secondary: Cushing
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Calaveras
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Type: Surface/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: Cascade-Sierra Mountains
Physiographic Section: Sierra Nevada
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Not available
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Not available
Materials
Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz
Comments
Comment (Location): UTM EST. NE 1/4
Comment (Production): IN LAST PERIOD, MOST ORE WAS LOW-GRADE. LITTLE TAKEN OUT BELOW 300-FT LEVEL.
Comment (Deposit): VEINS
Comment (Workings): WORKINGS TO DEPTH OF 700 FT. STOPES FROM 300 LEVEL TO SURFACE. AT 700 FT LEVEL DRIFTS ON WEST VEIN 150 FT, & ON E VEIN 75 FT.
Comment (Geology): 4 VEINS NEAR SURFACE W/I 200 FT THICK ZONE. MAIN OF BARREN WHITE QUARTZ. 2 MAIN STRINGER VEINS, CALLED EAST & WEST, ARE SEPERATED BY A LAYER OF SOFT SCHIST & LIE BETWEEN HARD SCHIST OUTER WALLS. E VEIN IS 5 FT & W VEIN IS 14 FT THICK. W VEIN HAS A HARD DIORITE FOOTWALL & HEAVY TALCOSE SLATE HANGING WALL, W. DIP OF 65 FT. EAST VEIN HARD DIORITE HANGING WALL HAS DIP OF 80 E. VEINS ARE PARALLEL.
References
Reference (Deposit): CLARK, W.B., & LYDON, P.A., 1962 , MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIF.: CALIF. DIV. MINES & GEOL., COUNTY REPORT 2 , P. 34 - 35 , 182 , PL B
Reference (Deposit): LOGAN, C.A., FRANKE, H., 1936 , MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF CALAVERAS CO.: CDM CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL., VOL. 32 , NO. 3 , P. 320
Reference (Deposit): LOGAN, C.A., 1935 , MOTHER LODE GOLD BELT OF CALIF.: CDM BULL. 108 , P 147 - 148
Reference (Deposit): TUCKER, W.B., 1916 , CALAVERAS COUNTY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES & GEOL., 14TH REPORT STATE MINERALOGIST, P. 108
Reference (Production): LOGAN, 1935
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