Fairview Mine

The Fairview Mine is a gold mine located in Trinity county, California at an elevation of 2,799 feet.

About the MRDS Data:

All mine locations were obtained from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The locations and other information in this database have not been verified for accuracy. It should be assumed that all mines are on private property.

Mine Info

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Site Name

Primary: Fairview Mine

Commodity

Primary: Gold

Location

State: California
County: Trinity
District: Minersville

Land Status

Land ownership: National Forest
Note: the land ownership field only identifies whether the area the mine is in is generally on public lands like Forest Service or BLM land, or if it is in an area that is generally private property. It does not definitively identify property status, nor does it indicate claim status or whether an area is open to prospecting. Always respect private property.

Holdings

Not available

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Unknown
Discovery Year: 1897
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N
Deposit Size: S

Physiography

General Physiographic Area: Pacific Mountain System
Physiographic Province: Pacific Border Province
Physiographic Section: Klamath Mountains

Mineral Deposit Model

Not available

Orebody

Form: IRREGULAR

Structure

Type: L
Description: Faulted Segment Of Vein Exposed By Surface Cuts On East End Of Old Stopes Fault Contact Of Black Slate Material With Greenstone Exposed In No. 4 Level, But No Ore Found On Contact. Brecciated Rhyolitic Dike Rock, Cutting Slate Was Exposed In Raise Above No. 4 Level. It Contained Ore.

Alterations

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Rocks

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Analytical Data

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Materials

Ore: Gold
Gangue: Quartz

Comments

Comment (Commodity): PIECES OF SPECIMEN ORE WERE FOUND AT CONTACT

Comment (Location): UTM EST. W 1/2 11 LAND STATUS VALUE CALCULATED 7-94 USING GIS OVERLAY ANALYSIS WITH USFS LAND OWNERSHIP BOUNDARIES, 1:126,720 SCALE.

Comment (Production): NO OTHER PRODUCTION RECORD FOUND

Comment (Deposit): VEINS AND STRINGER ZONE HANGING WALL SLATE, FOOTWALL DIORITIC DIKE SOME VEIN MATERIAL DIPS SOUTH. CONTAINS VERY GOOD GRADE OF ORE, BUT VEIN MATERIAL IRREGULAR, 2 FT. THICK. ORE SHOOTS PINCH AT LOW ANGLE (ABOUT 20 DEG.) EAST AND CONSIST OF SMALL BANDS ABOUT 1 FT. THICK CLOSE TO SLATE WALLS. OCCASIONAL MN STAINS. PYRITE SAID TO BE PRACTICALLY BARREN OF GOLD

Comment (Workings): 285 FT. ADIT BETWEEN NO. 1 AND NO. 2 LEVELS OF OLDER WORKINGS. SMALL MILLSITE. OLDER WORKINGS INCLUDE OPEN CUTS, LEVELS 3 AND 4, DRIFTS AND NUMEROUS STOPES

Comment (Geology): DIORITIC DIKE (?) FOOTWALL HIGHLY SILICIFIED. SLATE-DIORITE CONTACT DIPS 45 E

Comment (Deposit): 440 ACRES OF PATENTED CLAIMS AND ADDITIONAL UNPATENTED CLAIMS. MINE WAS WORKED AT VARIOUS TIMES FOR MANY YEARS, IN 1901 TO 1908 BY DIFFERENT GROUPS OF LESSEES. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

References

Reference (Deposit): AVERILL, C.V., 1941, MINERAL RESOURCES OF TRINITY COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 37, NO. 1, P. 34

Reference (Deposit): BROWN, G.C., 1913, THE COUNTIES OF SHASTA, SISKIYOU AND TRINITY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 14, P. 888

Reference (Deposit): FERGUSON, H.G., 1914, GOLD LODES OF WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE, CALIF.: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 540, P. 75-76

Reference (Production): BROWN (1913)

Reference (Deposit): AVERILL, C.V., 1933, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 29, P. 23-24

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