Mine detail: Fairview Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

40.82624, -122.74917

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold
Gangue:	Quartz
Orebody form:	IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1897

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Small
Development status:	Past Producer

Geology

Host rock:	Bragdon Slate
Host type:	Slate
Associated type:	Diorite
Structure:	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.

References

MRDS	X025892
DEP	10086644
Reference	{Deposit:: AVERILL, C.V., 1941, MINERAL RESOURCES OF TRINITY COUNTY: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 37, NO. 1, P. 34}{Deposit:: AVERILL, C.V., 1933, GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE REDDING AND WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLES: CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 29, P. 23-24}{Deposit:: BROWN, G.C., 1913, THE COUNTIES OF SHASTA, SISKIYOU AND TRINITY: CALIF. JOUR. MINES AND GEOLOGY, V. 14, P. 888}{Deposit:: FERGUSON, H.G., 1914, GOLD LODES OF WEAVERVILLE QUADRANGLE, CALIF.: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 540, P. 75-76}{Production:: BROWN (1913)}
Reporter	Nelson, Scott C. (Albers, John, P.)