Gold Cliff-Madison-Carson Hill Prop

The Gold Cliff-Madison-Carson Hill Prop is a gold mine located in Calaveras county, California at an elevation of 1,401 feet.

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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: Gold Cliff-Madison-Carson Hill Prop
Secondary: Mine Names At On the Carson
Secondary: Property Included:
Secondary: Morgan
Secondary: Reserve
Secondary: Enterprise
Secondary: South Carolina
Secondary: Stanislaus
Secondary: Calaveras
Secondary: Melones

Commodity

Primary: Gold
Secondary: Silver

Location

State: California
County: Calaveras

Land Status

Land ownership: Unknown
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

Type: Unknown
Type: Private Lease

Workings

Not available

Ownership

Not available

Production

Not available

Deposit

Record Type: Site
Operation Category: Past Producer
Operation Type: Surface-Underground
Mining Method: Unknown
Years of Production:
Organization:
Significant: N

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

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Analytical Data

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Materials

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Comments

Comment (Location): THE CORRDINATES GIVEN FOR THIS PROPERTY IN THE MILS DATA SET ARE FOR THE CARSON HILL MINE. THE GOLD CLIFF AND MADISON MINES ARE LOCATED WEST OF ANGLES CAMP. CA. APPROXIMATELY AT LAT. N38-04-21, LONG W120-34-15. ADDITIONAL DATA MAY BE FOUND IN DATA SETS WITH THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE NUMBERS: GOLD HILL 0060090805 MADISON 0060090816 CARSON HILL 0060090746 (NO SUCH MAS SEQ# (11/97):

Comment (Ownership): GOLD CLIFF AND MADISON PROPERTIES ARE PRESENTLY SUBLEASED TO NORTHCLA RESOURCES LTD. OF VANCOUVER, B.C. BY NEW JERSEY ZINC EXPLORATION CO., A GULF AND WESTERN CO. A GENTLEMAN NAMED MONTI VERDI IS REPORTED TO BE THE OWNER OF THE CARSON HILL PROPERTY.

Comment (Reserve-Resource): THERE ARE NO RECOVERABLE RESERVES IN EITHER THE GOLD CLIFF MADISON PORPERTY, NOR IN THE CARSON HILL PROPERTY AS OF SEPTEMBER 1983. DURING 1978, NEW JERSEY ZINC CARRIED OUT A PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION OF THE GOLD CLIFFS-MADISON AREA. 44 CHANNEL SAMPLES AND 108 SOIL SAMPLES WERE COLLECTED ON A RECONNAISSANCE GRID OVER THE PROPERTY. ON THE BASIS OF HESE INITIAL RESULTS AND THEIR EXPERIECNE ON SIMILAR PROPERTIES, NEW JERSY ZINC ASSIGNED A RESERVE POTENTIAL FOR THE PROPERTY TO A DEPTH OF 61 METERS AS FOLLOWS: TONNAGE ANTICIPATED GRADE GOLD CLIFF AREA 900.000-1,500,000 MT 3.25 GM AU/MT MADISON AREA 900,000MT 3.43 GM AU/MT TOTAL 1.8-2,440,000MT 3/32 GM AU/MT AT THE TIME THE CARSON HILL PROPERTY CLOSED IN 1942, IT WAS STATED THAT THE MELONES MINE CONTAINED 853,000MT OF ORE CONTAINING 2.05 GM AU/MT, AND THE CALAVERAS MINE CONTAINED 1,800,000MT OF ORE AT 5.49 GM AU/MT. COMPLETION AND FILLING OF THE NEW MELONES RESERVOIR HAS FLOODED MOST UNDERGROUND AREAS AT CARSON HILL AND IT IS PRESUMED THE UNDERGROUND RESERVES AS STATED ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE.

Comment (Geology): AT THE GOLD CLIFF MINE, THE ORE ZONE WAS OVER 30 METERS WIDE NEAR THE SURFACE AT ITS NORTH END. THE ORE DEVELOPED AS A THICK CHIMNEY OF SOLID WHITE QUARTZ AND CRUSHED AMPHIBOLITE SCHIST LYING AT THE JUNCTION OF TWO VEINS. GOLD ACCRUED IN THE CRUSHED SCHISTS WITH 65 PER CENT OF THE GOLD ASSOCIATED WITH FINE SULFIDES. THE VEIN WAS ESSENTIALLY BARREN BELOW THE 1900 FOOT LEVEL. THE MADISON MINE IS GEOLOGICALLY SIMILAR TO THE GOLD CLIFF, BUT WITH LOWER GRADE ORE. THE AURIFEROUS CHLORITIC AMPHIBOLE SCHIST WAS FROM 1.5-6.1 METERS WIDE. THE HIGHLY METAMORPHOSED ROCKS OF CARSON HILL CONSIST OF CHLORITE SCHIST, AMPHIBOLITE SCHISTS, AND BLACK PHYLLITE. DIKES OF ULTRABASIC ROCKS SUCH AS GABBRO AND PERIODOTITE WHICH HAVE INTRUDED THE SCHISTS HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO SERPEN- TINE. ORE IS ASSOCIATED WITH FOUR VEIN SYSTEMS. AT THE BULL VEIN, THE ORE WAS NOT IN THE IN ITSELF, BUT IN THE SCHIST ADJACENT TO IT. THE ORE BODIES WERE IRREGULAR IN SHPAE, AND RANGED UP TO 9 METERS IN WIDTH, AND EXTENDED FROM THE SUR- FACE TO A DEPTH OF 1390 METERS. THE AVERAGE GRADE WAS 23 GM AU/MT. THERE ARE 4 FLAT VEINS ON THE HANGING WALL OF THE BULL VEIN. THEY ARE OLDER THAN THE BULL VEIN. THE ORE WAS ABOUT 12 METERS THICK, AND WAS MENERALIZED WITH AURIFEROUS PYRITE. THE PINK FOOTWALL VEIN SYSTEM OCCURRRED AT THE SUR- FACE AS A QUARTZ-STRINGER LODE WITH MINERALIZED SCHIST AND RUNS PARALLEL TO THE BULL VEIN. THE VEIN ORE WAS GOLD-SILVER TELLURIDES. HE CALAVERAS VEIN SYSTEM IS COMPOSED OF BRAN- CHING AND OVERLAPPING PARALLEL STRINGERS OF WHITE QUARTZITE INTERSPACED WITH TALCY GOUGE, TALCOSE SERICITE SCHIST, AND MASSES OF ANKERITE STREAKED WITH MARIPOSITE. THE ORE CONSIS- TED OF GOLD IN QUARTZ AND AS AURIFEROUS PYRITE IN SCHISTS.

References

Reference (Deposit): THE MINING RECORD, JUNE 1983, PAGE UNKNOW.

Reference (Deposit): WESTERVELT, R.D., A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE GOLD CLIFF

Reference (Deposit): GOLD PROPERTY, ANGLES CAMP, CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA;

Reference (Deposit): FOR NORTHCAL RESOURCES, LTD., MAY 15, 1983.

Reference (Deposit): GOLD RESOURCES OF THE MOTHER LODE BELT, EL DORADO, AMADOR,

Reference (Deposit): CALAVERAS, TUOLUMNE, AND MARIPOSA COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA.

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