The Peterson is a gold mine located in Amador county, California.
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Peterson MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Peterson
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Tertiary: Arsenic
Location
State: California
County: Amador
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Peterson, William F.
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: DISSEMINATED
Structure
Type: L
Description: N.E. Trending Block Faults
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: SELECTED ORE ASSAYED $40 TO $60/TON AND BETTER WHILE MILL RUN ORE ASSAYED $30/TON.
Materials
Ore: Gold
Ore: Pyrite
Comments
Comment (Workings): 3 ADITS AT 65 , 200 , 270 FT. LEVELS; 2 LOWER ADITS CAVED, MINOR STOPING CONFINED TO UPPER ADIT.
Comment (Location): NE 1/4 SEC. 5
Comment (Geology): GEOL.DESC: LARGEST VEIN AND SECONDARY VEINS TREND NORTH WHILE OTHER IMPORTANT VEINS STRIKE EAST; ALL VEINS ARE NEARLY VERTICAL. ONE HEAVILY MINERALIZED ZONE ENCOUNTERED, 50 TO 60 FT THICK, 560 FT. FROM PORTAL.
Comment (Commodity): ORE CONSISTS OF LEAF GOLD AND DISSEMINATED GOLD IN QUARTZ, ASSOCIATED WITH PYRITE AND ARSENOPYRITE
Comment (Production): PURCHASED BY PETERSON IN 1931 AND OPERATED CONTINUOUSLY UNTIL 1942 WITH TOTAL GOLD OUTPUT APPROX.$250,000.PRODUCTION RESUMED IN 1948. IN 1952 THE OLD 200-FT. LEVEL WAS BEING REOPENED. ONLY A SMALL PRODUCTION HAS BEEN RECORDED SINCE 1948 SINCE MOST OF THE OPERATIONS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPMENT WORK. SELECTED ORE ASSAYS $40 TO $60 AND BETTER PER TON WHILE THE MILL RUN ORE ASSAYS ABOUT $30 PER TON . SOME PROD. IN 1954 BY OWL MNG. CO. PROBABLY THE WORKING SHOWN IN THE NE 1/4 OF THIS SEC. ON USGS QUAD. PINE GROVE, CALIF., 1949, IS THIS MINE
References
Reference (Production): CARLSON, D.W. AND CLARK, W.B.
Reference (Deposit): CARLSON, D.W. AND CLARK, W.B., 1954 , MINES AND MIN. RES. OF AMADOR COUNTY, CAL.: CJMG VOL. 50 , P. 189
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