Mine detail: Shasta King

Previously called 'Lost DesertTrinity'

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Location

Lat / long:

40.73291, -122.49721

Resource(M)

Primary:	Copper
Secondary:	Silver, Gold
Tertiary:	Zinc
Ore:	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Gangue:	Sericite
Orebody form:	LENTICULAR

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer
Production years:	1908 - 1909 , 1918 - 1919

Geology

Host type:	Rhyolite
Associated type:	Rhyolite
Structure:	Premineral And Postmineral Faults. Evidence For Premineral Age On Faults Nos. 3 , 5 & 12 Is The Pressence Of Pyrite And Pyrite Clasts Filled With Iron Oxide, Along Faults Away From Orebody. All Faulta Except No. 12 Show Postmineral Movement, Horizontal Movements Have Been Suggested To Occur Along Faults No. 2 , 5 & 7 As Well As Vertically.
Alteration processes:	Hydrothermal, Chloritization

References

MRDS	W025290
DEP	10077588
Reference	{Deposit:: KINKEL, A. R., HALL, W. E., AND ALBERS, J. P., 1956 , GEOLOGY AND BASE - METAL DEPOSITS OF WEST SHASTA COPPER - ZINC DISTRICT SHASTA COUNTY, CALIF., GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 285 , PG. 138 - 144}{Production:: KIVEL, ET AL, 1956 , PG. 140 SEE REF.}
Reporter	Fraticelli, L. A. (Albers, J.)