The Long Tom Mine is a gold mine located in Kern county, California.
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Long Tom Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Long Tom Mine
Secondary: Claims: Hirshfield
Secondary: Webb
Secondary: Bell
Secondary: Lady Langtry
Secondary: Antrim
Secondary: Josephine
Secondary: Gold Curry
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Kern
District: Long Tom Mining District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Long Tom M. And M. Co.
Owner Name: F. B. Webb
Years: 1933 -
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
Comments
Comment (Workings): PRINCIPAL WORKINGS ON SE PORTION OF PROPERTY ON LONG TOM VEIN. THE DEVELOPMENT WORK CONSISTED OF A SHAFT ON THE VEIN, VARIOUSLY REPORTED TO BE FROM 380 FT TO 500 FT DEEP, WITH SEVERAL THOUSAND FEET OF DRIFTS. THE VEIN HAS BEEN STOPED FROM THE 300 FT LEVEL TO SURFACE, FOR A LENGTH OF 150 FT. THESE WORKINGS ARE NOW INACCESSIBLE. THE PROPERTY WAS UNDER LEASE TO F.B. WEBB, WHO LIVED ON THE PROPERTY. HE CONFINED HIS WORK TO TUCKERS GULCH, WHICH IS JUST NORTHEAST OF THE LONG TOM WORKINGS. CONSIDERABLE TUNNELING AND GOPHERING WAS DONE HERE IN THE EARLY DAYS ON TWO INTERSECTING VEINS IN THE GRANITE, THE ANTRIM AND THE TUCKER. PRESENT WORKINGS ARE ON A VEIN WHICH PARALLELS THE ANTRIM JUST BELOW ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE TUCKER. THEY ARE NOW SINKING A SHAFT ON THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF THE GULCH IN AN ATTEMPT TO PICK UP THE ANTRIM VEIN BELOW THE OLD WORKINGS.
Comment (Deposit): 130 ACRES
Comment (Production): MILL IN TUCKERS GULCH REPORTEDLY RECOVERED ABOUT $5/TON. 116 TONS OF ORE YIELDED $2800 IN THE MILL.
Comment (Development): WATER WAS OBTAINED FROM SPRINGS THROUGH 3200 FT OF 1.5 IN PIPE. DUMPS FROM ARRASTRAS AND OLD MILLS WERE HAULED TO A PLANT IN TUCKERS GULCH, WHICH CONSISTED OF 2 20-TON TANKS, CURCULATING PUMP AND ZINC BOXES.
Comment (Deposit): LONG TOM VEIN ON SE PORTION OF PROPERTY, AVG 16 INCHES IN THICKNESS. FOOT WALL DIABASE, HANGING WALL GRANITE. 2 OTHER INTERSECTING VEINS ARE THE ANTRIM, AND THE TUCKER. AVG. 5 INCHES IN THICKNESS.
References
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 29, P. 316-317.
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 14, P. 502.
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