The Old Cowboy Mine is a silver and gold mine located in Kern county, California.
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Mine Info
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Old Cowboy Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Old Cowboy Mine
Commodity
Primary: Silver
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Kern
District: Amalie Mining District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Clarence G. Talleur, Carson City, Nevada
Years: 1949 -
Owner Name: Basic Metals, Ltd., Los Angeles
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 (Commodity): SILVER CONSTITUTES ABOUT 95% OF VALUABLE METAL IN ORE.
Comment (Location): WOUTH OF CALIENTE CREEK, ON A RIDGE BETWEEN INDIAN AND STUDHORSE CREEKS. ADJOINS GOLD PEAK CLAIM ON THE NORTH.
Comment (Production): DEVELOEPD AND OPERATED DURING EARLY PART OF TWENTIETH CENTURY. AT WHICH TIME 70 CARS AVERAGING $125/TON WERE SHPPED. NO SPECIFIC PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND.
Comment (Deposit): VEIN, 12 FT IN THICKNESS. VEIN FILLING CONSISTS OF QUARTZ AND ALTERED WALLROCK. ORE SHOOT WAS 230 FT LONG.
Comment (Deposit): 4 CLAIMS.
Comment (Workings): THE MINE IS DEVELOPED BY SIX TUNNELS. THE LOWER TUNNEL, NO. 6, AT AN ELEVATION OF 3,120 FEET, WAS DRIVEN 206 FEET EAST. AN 80 FOOT RAISE ON THE VEIN COMES WITHIN 20 FEET OF CONNECTING WITH A WINZE FROM TUNNEL NO. 5, WHICH WAS DRIVEN 600 FEET EAST. TUNNEL NO. 4, AT AN ELEVATION OF 3,350 FEET, WAS DRIVEN 500 FEET EAST; NO. 3, AT AN ELEVATION OF 3,550 FEET, WAS DRIVEN 200 FEET EAST; AND NO. 1, AT AN ELEVATION OF ABOUT 3,620 FEET, WAS DRIVEN EASTWARD ABOUT 50 FT. THREE ORE SHOOTS, AGGREGATING APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET IN LENGTH, WERE DEVELOPED IN THESE WORKINGS. THEY WERE STOPED FROM 18 INCHES TO 6 1/2 FEET IN WIDTH. THIS MATERIAL ALL CAME FROM THE HANGINGWALL SIDE OF THE VEIN, AND IN MANY INSTANCES SEVERAL FEET OF VEIN ADJACENT TO THE FOOTWALL SIDE REMAINS.
Comment (Geology): K4: GANGUE: QUARTZ
References
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 14, P. 505.
Reference (Deposit): TUCKER, W.E., SAMPSON, R.J. AND OAKESHOTT, G.B., 1949, MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 45, NO. 2, P. 230-231, PL. 17.
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