The Joe Walker Mine is a gold mine located in Kern county, California.
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Joe Walker Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Joe Walker Mine
Secondary: Claims: Lena
Secondary: Hidden Queen
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Kern
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Dan Cronin And Associates Of Bakersfield
Owner Name: J. B. Huggin And Phoebe A. Hearst Estates
Production
Year: 1874
Time Period: 1865-1874
Material type: ORE AU
Description: Cp_Grade: ^$24/Ton, 3% Sulfides
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Year First Production: 1865
Discovery Year: 1865
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
Comments
Comment (Development): ORE WAS TREATED IN 20 STAMP MILL. CAUSE OF STOPPAGE IN 1874 WAS FLOODING WITH A GREATER VOLUME OF WATER THAN PUMPS COULD HANDLE.
Comment (Deposit): VEIN, 2-20 FT THICK. WELL-DEFINED, WITH SMOOTH WALLS AND CLAY GOUGE.
Comment (Workings): 250 FT AND 350 FT INCLINES LESSEES WERE PUMPING WATER OUT OF SHAFT. AS OF NOV. 1, 1946, THEY WERE WITHIN A FEW FEET OF 250 FT LEVEL. ORE WAS STOPED OUT FROM 250 FT AND 350 FT LEVELS TO SURFACE FOR DISTANCE OF 700 FT DURING EARLIER WORKINGS.
Comment (Deposit): 2 PATENTED CLAIMS.
Comment (Production): MUCH OF THE ORE FROM THE UPPER PORTIONS OF THE MINE WENT OVER $100/TON. CONCENTRATED SULFIDES STATED TO HAVE YIELDED $3000/TON.
References
Reference (Deposit): TUCKER, W.B., SAMPSON, R.J., AND OAKESHOTT, G. B., 1949, MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 45, NO. 2, P. 226, PL. 17.
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL 29, P. 310-311.
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 8, P. 317-318.
Reference (Production): TUCKER AND SAMPSON (1949), P. 226, CJMG VOL 8, P. 317
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