The Yellow Dog Mine is a gold mine located in Kern county, California.
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Yellow Dog Mine MRDS details
Site Name
Primary: Yellow Dog Mine
Commodity
Primary: Gold
Location
State: California
County: Kern
District: Mojave Mining District
Land Status
Not available
Holdings
Not available
Workings
Not available
Ownership
Owner Name: Yellow Dog Mining Co.
Years: 1949 -
Owner Name: Richard Moon And Roy Farley,
Home Office: Mojave, California
Years: 1949 -
Production
Not available
Deposit
Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1922
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S
Physiography
General Physiographic Area: Intermontane Plateaus
Physiographic Province: Basin And Range Province
Physiographic Section: Sonoran Desert
Mineral Deposit Model
Not available
Orebody
Not available
Structure
Type: L
Description: Stock
Alterations
Not available
Rocks
Not available
Analytical Data
Analytical Data: FROM 4 FT OF VEIN $25/TON.
Analytical Data: AVG. VALUE OF SAMPLES FROM SPAR VEIN $3/TON
Materials
Ore: Gold
Comments
Comment (Workings): DEVELOPMENT CONSISTS OF A 60 DEG. INCLINED SHAFT SUNK 300 FEET WITH LEVELS AT 50, 100, AND 200 FEET. IN THESE WORKINGS NORTH OF THE SHAFT AS ORE SHOOT 200 FEET LONG BY 6 FEET WIDE WAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN THE 100 FOOT LEVEL AND THE SURFACE. ABOUT 420 FEET SOUTH OF THIS, A 55 DEG. INCLINED SHAFT HAS BEEN SUNK 240 FEET, WITH LEVELS AT 50, 100, 150, 180, AND 240 FEET. LESSEES ARE WORKING IN A RAISE IN THE FOOTWALL ABOVE THE 150 FOOT LEVEL ABOUT 75 FEET FROM THE SHAFT.
Comment (Geology): K4:GANGUE:QUARTZ, CALCITE, MANGANESE OXIDE
Comment (Deposit): 8 CLAIMS. 160 ACRES.
Comment (Development): PROSPECTED BY R.C. DARLING IN 1870. THOMAS WALSH PURCHASED MOST OF THE CLAIMS IN THE CAMP BIRD GROUP IN 1896. SMUGGLER-UNON AND TOMBOY HOLDINGS WAS ORGANIZED AS THE TELLURIDE MINES, INC. IN 1940.
Comment (Deposit): VEINS WERE FORMED BY OPEN-SPACE FILLING AND REPLACEMENT PROCESSES SMUGGLER-UNION VEIN TRENDS NORTH WEST AND HAS BEEN MINES FOR A HORIZONTAL DISTANCE OF 8000 FT.
Comment (Geology): *MINERALIZATION OF FRACTURE SYSTEM OCCURED AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT STAGES: 17 MA AND 13 MA. SAN JUAN FM. (35-30 MA) : INTERMEDIATE-COMPOSITION MUDFLOWS, VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS, LAVA FLOWS, AND FLOW BRECCIAS.
Comment (Deposit): INCLUDES LIBERTY MINE, TOMBOY GROUP MINES, IDARADO
Comment (Production): TOTAL PRODUCTION PROBABLY EXCEEDED $12000000.
Comment (Deposit): VEIN 8-10 FT IN THICKNESS WITH HIGH-GRADE MINERALIZATION ON HANGING WALL. ON FOOTWALL, 6-8 FT OF CALCITE VEIN FILLING. SOUTH OF THE 300 FT INCLINE, THE VEIN IS DISPLACED ABOUT 20 FT TO THE WEST BY A N60W FAULT.
Comment (Reserve-Resource): RESERVES MAY BE LARGE
Comment (Location): WESTERN SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS
Comment (Production): PRODUCTION PRIMARILY FROM IDORADO (1901-1976).
References
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 29, P. 338-339.
Reference (Deposit): CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 19, P. 163.
Reference (Production): TUCKER AND SAMPSON (1949), CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, VOL. 29, P. 339.
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. 238, PL. 17.
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