Mine detail: Sailor Boy Diggings

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Location: Sierra County, California, United States, North America
Lat / long: 39.53766, -121.02576
dep_id: 10077637
mrds_id: W025377
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Trace mineral: Platinum
Operation type: Unknown
Deposit type: Stream Placer
Production size: Small ammount of material produced
Development status: Producer
ore: Gold
orebody_fm: STREAM SEDIMENT DEPOSITS
model: 119: Placer Au-PGE
conc_proc: Entrapment By Irregularities In Stream Bed Or Deposition In Low-Energy Part Of Stream
ore_ctrl: Stream Hydraulics
Reporter: Peterson, Jocelyn A.
hrock_type: Gravel
tectonic: Sierra Nevada Foothills Accreted Terrane
Year first produced: 1855
References:
  • Deposit:: CLARK, W.B., 1970, GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA: CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY BULLETIN 193, P. 31.
  • Deposit:: CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894, GOLD - SIERRA COUNTY: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, 12TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST, P. 272.
  • Deposit:: LINDGREN, WALDEMAR, 1911, THE TERTIARY GRAVELS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA OF CALIFORNIA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 73, P. 111.
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