Mine detail: Blue Bell Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 40.99736, -120.8855

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Gold
Orebody form: VEIN
Discovery year: 1880

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Rhyolite
Structure:Rhyolite Is Brecciated
Tectonic:Modoc Plateau
Alteration processes:Rhyolite Is Altered

References

MRDSM009064
DEP10109228
Reference{Deposit:: CRAWFORD, J.J., 1894, GOLD - LASSEN COUNTY, IN 12TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 148.}{Deposit:: HILL, J.M., 1915, SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 594, P. 30-38.}{Deposit:: TUCKER, W.B., 1919, LASSEN COUNTY, IN 25TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 231.}{Deposit:: LAIZURE, C.MCK., 1921, LASSEN COUNTY, IN 17TH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST: CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU, P. 508.}{Deposit:: BURNETT, J.L., 1990, 1989 CALIFORNIA MINING REVIEW: CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY V. 43, NO. 10, P. 219-224.}
ReporterGere W., Peterson, Jocelyn A.